Are not two sparrows sold for a cent?
And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
Matthew 10:29
Do you realize the power and the gift of assurance that is found in the words of this verse… this simple quote from the lips of our Savior about a couple of little birds?
I don’t know where you are in your walk with the Lord… I don’t even know if you even have one… if you don’t, I hope that maybe the path that I am on might intrigue you enough to join me for a while… I have, I think at least, over three years of my journey recorded on this site.
It’s funny, some posts are silly, some post have caught me in a moment of readiness to extend abundant grace to the greatest of sinful man, some have caught me in a moment of ready to drop the hammer down and tell everyone who refuses to obey Christ to suck it so I can just move on… some posts have my triumphs and victories… some post hold my pity parties…
I have considered before going through and changing the wording of some of my more “harsher” post, my husband nicely described them once as “controversial” as he compared another girl’s blog to mine… but as I considered this re-wording, I decided… nope.
This is the dichotomy of the human spirit, at the very least, MY human spirit, and it is my journey of faith. The mountains and the valleys and the moments by the streams… it is what it is… and to go back and change the wording… in order to change the spirit and emotion in which it was written would remove the reality of the moment and memory.
All that said… to say… the most amazing journey that my God has me on is the one into the beauty of His sovereignty.
I cannot begin to express the release of life’s burdens that come when we begin to realize that God is indeed GOD!
The more we come to understand the scope of His salvation and the sovereignty of our God, the ability for man, for circumstances, for tragedy, for health, for death, for anything at all to shake you becomes less and less. These things become absolutely impotent in the face of an omnipotent God.
When I hear my Jesus speak to my spirit and say…
Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.
Matthew 10:28-31
I think of all the things that can kill this body… an evil man deceived and held in bondage by the kingdom of darkness and serving the powers of hell, an appearing out of no where accident, a sickness in this weak flesh of ours as cancer, or simply the process of aging itself, as sin has its effect on this temporary body that is fit only for death. I think of all these things when my Jesus says, Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul …
Not one these things has the ability to kill my soul! NOT ONE!
Not one of these has the ability to steal my soul from the hand of my God. NOT ONE!
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37-39
Not one of these things has the ability to kill my soul and not one of these things has the ability to take from me the purpose and plan of God for my life.
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is no one like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things which have not been done,
Saying, ‘My purpose will be established,
Isaiah 46:9-10
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For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6
There is great peace in knowing that God is GOD.
There is great assurance in knowing that God is GOD.
There is great confidence in knowing that God is GOD.
I have no need ever to fear any device of man, any defect of this flesh, any demonic threat because my God is GOD!
No one can snatch me from His hand and no one and no thing can take my life… I belong to Him. I am His. So whatever comes into my life or comes against my life has not the power to triumph over me… for if God is for me… WHO CAN BE AGAINST ME!
It’s a good place to be, resting in the sovereignty of God, knowing that you wake up each day to live in obedience to Him… come what may… knowing that God is for you… I have no desire to carry the burden of sin, rebellion, disobedience, unforgiveness, fear… I have carried that burden before and it is too heavy for me. I prefer the cross of my Christ… and whatever might come with it… because I know in HIM and though HIM and for HIM I will be more than a conquerer.
Have you discovered this for yourself precious one?
Have you come to know and to grasp and to receive and walk in the knowledge of the sovereignty of our Creator?
Every October our church puts on an eight scene walk through drama called The Judgment Seat, this year our theme has received a lot of criticism, because it’s a little different than usual. I myself have pondered it, and wrestled with it, seeking God concerning it, wondering if we should change it, adjust it in some way… but today after my remembrance of the sovereignty of God I am beginning to see the purpose behind this theme.
We want you, precious one, to understand that no matter what, GOD IS GOOD, ALL THE TIME , IN HIS TIME, JUST IN TIME, WHY, BECAUSE THAT’S HIS NATURE.
He is sovereign, and all things, ALL THINGS, work together for good, for those who love HIM and are the called according to HIS PURPOSE.