God is Sovereign!

God is Sovereign!  He is the supreme authority; he is independent, superior, and absolute. 

Why? Why do the children of God have to suffer?  Why do we have to go through such difficult times?  There are so many people sick and hurting, but why?  I have been asking myself these questions over the last few days, but this morning after a prayer meeting with God I received my answer.  God did not create me or you in order for us to know everything.  We were never meant to understand everything.  Why?  Because we serve a God, we believe in a God who is the authority, who is absolute, who is sovereign!  He created us to serve him, to love him, and to trust him in all things; and if we do these three things then everything else will come together and we will learn that when we let go of everything that we know and truly trust Him, then we don’t have to understand everything. 

The other day when it was raining so hard I found myself just staring at all the drops hitting the ground and wondering if that would amount to how many tears Jesus has shed over us.  This may sound a bit crazy, but hear me out…don’t you think God is a little disappointed in his children?  Look at this world and how we operate day to day.  Do we spend as much time in prayer as we should? Do we serve Him in all that we do?  Do we put Him first in everything?  Do we take moments just to love Him and praise Him?  Or do we stay so busy that it takes something traumatic to turn us back to God?  Not a new concept here---hasn’t this been the same story since the beginning of time?  God’s children need God, they worship and serve God with all their heart for a while and then things get a little too easy and God’s children think they know how to take care of themselves.  God’s children become self-sufficient and selfish.  Catastrophe happens and now God’s children realize they can’t do this on their own and they cry out to God.  God saves them and once again they begin to serve God with all their heart.  So maybe that is my answer, not that God puts sickness, problems, or catastrophes on us, but allowing those things to happen makes us realize how much we do need God.  As terrible as it was for my brother to be so sick, I would not change it for anything.  It still hurts to see him struggling, but we are all different because of it, we are all closer to God because of it, and if that is what it took for us to know God more than it will be worth it in the long run.  Who are we to question suffering when our Savior suffered so much for each one of us? His suffering is what saves us from this world---it is what made to way for us to get to Heaven. Bad things will continue to happen, people will continue to struggle, people will still hurt, but in all those things we can count on this….Jesus will continue to love us, Jesus will continue to save us, Jesus will continue to heal us, and Jesus will never, ever let go of us because He is the authority, He is absolute, and He is sovereign!