sovereignty

God keeps some things sovereignly to Himself so they won’t be changed. Because His personality stays intact we can come to know Him, for no one can know someone who changes. God doesn’t change (Jms 1:17), and to know Him we find His nature by His Spirit, the Holy Spirit. God remains Himself so that all may know Him just as He is. When God told His people that His name was “I am” (Ex 3:14), He was telling them that He was, and always is, the same.

Those born again by God’s Spirit continually grow in His image by submitting to God’s thoughts. But those who live contrary to God’s thoughts are open to pride and deception: pride, because they thought their thoughts were better than God’s thoughts, and deception because they do not develop the discernment of their thought-life. Being their own lord, these become the ones who deny Jesus Christ His sovereignty (Jude :4).

God does not change His nature to become like men so as to please them. God also does not change His timing so that we won’t become impatient. It is the spirit of the anti-Christ who seeks to change the set times and the laws that govern God’s kingdom (Dan 7:25). Jesus said that it was the false Christs and false prophets that would say He has come (Mk 13:21-23), for it is the wrong spirit that predicts things out of God’s timing. It is the wrong spirit which takes things that are sovereignly God’s and treats them as if they can be changed by a man.

Today it has become a fine line that separates those who walk by faith and those who command God to do what they have faith for. Yet we have the counsel of the Holy Spirit inside, sharing the Father’s will with us. Therefore we have confidence if we see His nature growing in us, for we have learned His ways by submitting our thoughts to His (1 Jn 4:17 & 5:14-15). But those who think and speak to please men are of the world still and have not submitted their thoughts to God’s thoughts. We know, therefore, those who speak from the Spirit of Truth from those who speak from the spirit of falsehood by whom receives them; the world, or the saints (1 Jn 4:4-6).

Let us give Jesus His lordship in our thought-life, words, and deeds, for He is Sovereign, appointed by God to have all authority under Him (Col 1:16-18). Amen.