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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Isaiah 46:10
‘I will do all my pleasure’
Read Romans 9:10-26
The God of heaven is infinitely, totally and absolutely sovereign. It is written, ‘Our God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased’ (Psalms 115:3). ‘Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and in all deep places’ (Psalms 135:6).
My friends, there is no possible alternative between a sovereign, omnipotent, supreme God, who does what he will, when he will, with whom he will and in the way he will, and no god at all. You cannot have a frustrated, defeated god. If there is any power that can resist him, change him, or defeat him, he is not god. Either God is sovereign, supreme and almighty, or there is no god. A god who has to give an account of what he thinks, what he purposes, or what he does is no god at all. Therefore it must be concluded, the god of modern, religious fundamentalism is no god at all. He is the idolatrous figment of man’s imagination. Those who preach this weak, defeated, frustrated god are false prophets. And those who worship him are lost. Their religion is idolatry. Someone said, ‘A god whose will can be successfully resisted, a god whose designs can be defeated or frustrated, a god whose purpose or counsel depends in any way on the help or co-operation of any creature, has no claim to deity. Instead of being an object of your worship, he merits nothing but your contempt.’
I worship God on the throne. I believe and trust God on the throne. I preach God on the throne. The Lord our God is totally sovereign. He is sovereign in creation, sovereign in providence and sovereign in salvation. He says, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy’ (Romans 9:15-16).
