Adjective
Possessing supreme or ultimate power
God is sovereign. This is a fact. In light of the recent tragedy, I know a lot of people are asking, "How could a loving God let this happen?" "Why?" and the other "tough questions." I'm not the right person to answer this, but NO ONE has the answers. I've been praying about this post, and I hope that it would help at least one person, a little bit.
I can't pretend to understand how God works. I don't know why what happened Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, happened. A lot of people are saying this wasn't God's will, and it wasn't, originally. All of the evil came into the world when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and fell into sin. If you look at their family, things were messed up even all the way back then-one son killed another out of envy. God knew that Adam and Eve would sin, but He still gave them the ability to choose right or wrong. I don't understand this completely, either-how can God preordain things and still give us a choice? Is our choice preordained whether we realize it or not?
Lamentations 3:37-38 tells us, "Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?" Some people would say that God is evil then, to have "caused" this. But God cannot sin-He is holy, just, and loving, everything that we are not.
What I do know is this-if this happened outside of God's will, our God isn't sovereign. And if our God isn't sovereign, then He can't have control over everything. And if there are things outside of God's control...that's not good. It'd mess up the whole plan since before time began, the way that Adam and Eve and the rest of us can have a relationship with Him after they fell and we were all born into sin.
See, Jesus is THE way, THE truth, and THE life, and no one comes to God the Father except through Him. God provided a way out of sin and death and darkness, into the light, into life, and that's Jesus. And I firmly believe that those twenty little children are with Him now. Although it seems SO unfair that they never had the chance to live their lives, to graduate, to get married, they are in the presence of a Father who loves them more than we can imagine. They will never suffer again.
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