We have probably never heard so many people utter, “God is in control,” as we have in the past several months. This article is dedicated to the proclamation of that irrevocable truth. Our part is to just watch God work His redemptive plan since it all belongs to Him, and He is running it! He was in control before any of us were here, and He will be in control after we are all dead and gone.
- Psalm 33:10-11 – “The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the people of no effect. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations.”
- Psalm 46:10 – “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
- Psalm 74:16-17 – “The day is Yours; the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun. You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter.”
- Psalm 86:9-10 – “All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O LORD, and glorify Your name. For You are great and do wondrous things; You alone are God.”
- Psalm 115:1 – “Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory, because of Your mercy, because of Your truth.”
- Isaiah 5:26 – “He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar, and will whistle to them from the end of the earth; Surely they shall come with speed, swiftly.”
- Isaiah 40:21-22 – “Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth useless.”
- Isaiah 46:9-11 – “Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me; Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.’ Calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.”
- Isaiah 48:13 – “Indeed My hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; When I call to them, they stand up together.”
- Isaiah 57:17 – “For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.’”
- Jeremiah 9:23-24 – “Thus says the LORD: ‘Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,’ says the LORD.”
God has sovereign control over all the earth, the world and the universe. He has forthrightly declared that immutable, eternal truth of truths. In Job 41:11, God speaking to Job stated, “Who has first given to Me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.” Now that is control!
