God's Involvement
Some
say that those of us who do not believe that God continues to regularly suspend
natural law in our presence the way he did through the apostles and prophets in
Scripture, somehow “put God in a box” or seek to diminish his work in the
world. But if you think it through, it is actually quite the opposite. Those
who ardently seek the supernatural alteration of “nature’s laws” are usually
relegating the non-supernatural intervals to those times “between God’s work.”
They imply that when God sees us “backed into a corner” he then “shows up” to
bail us out or make a statement for his glory. But consider those of us who
claim that God is active and at work every day, in every situation, working
“everything after the counsel of his will” (Eph.1:11). We will be the ones
inclined to proclaim that “his mercies are new every morning” (Lam.3:22-23) and
that every day “the heavens declare the glory of God” and that “day after day
they pour forth speech” (Ps.19:1-2). We will be the first to recognize that God
is always working powerfully and sovereignly within the natural laws that he
made, never surprised by our circumstances or the dilemmas of our lives. We
will be apt to affirm that he sovereignly guides us through the challenges of
our lives and that Christ indeed “is before all things, and in him all things
hold together” (Col.1:17). There will be no doubt as we trust our wise and
mighty God that “in him we live and move and have our being” (Ac.17:28).
-Pastor Mike
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