God's Sovereignty

The following is an excerpt from the book Legacy of a Pack Rat by Ruth Bell Graham.

"The fool hath said in his heart,  There is no God" (Psalm 14:1).

      This goes also for those who doubt His sovereignty.  Either He is sovereign or He is not.  If He is not sovereign He is not God.  Therefore when we become so preoccupied with and dismayed by circumstances and certain people that we doubt God's ability to handle them in His own way, and in His own time, then we, too, are fools.

We see the sovereignty of God expressed in the following scripture.  The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.  (Mark 14:21)  God's sovereign plan for His Son was indeed carried out, and woe did indeed come to the one who betrayed Him. 

Psalm 31:15 says My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Through it all we must remember that He is Sovereign and our times are in His hands.  Woe to those who rise up against His children for we are in the hands of our mighty, sovereign God.