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He has everything under control! I rest in that.

Our Sovereign God -- a Bible acrostic by Noreen Roth

This is the third acrostic by my Mom which I’ve featured here. As our well-shaken 2020 hastens to its end (taking time with it), may this lift your focus heavenward to the Almighty who never loses control and whose purposes will be perfectly accomplished. May you find peace, rest, hope, and reassurance in Him.

After the acrostic Mom did on encouragement, I sent her a text with an idea for her next one: the sovereignty of God.

For us all, this year has been an amazing, disconcerting, troubling, troubled year on a variety of fronts. (After I post this, I’ll publish a separate article on this at my Ain’t Complicated blog. Link after Mom’s acrostic.)

We could say things have really spun out of control. In fact, when I started this post a week ago today, a first cousin of mine had been in a California hospital over a week already — in ICU in very critical condition and on a ventilator. Yes, covid. He’s no longer there. I believe he’s in Heaven.

Praise Almighty God, though, He has everything under control! I rest in that.

Now, here’s Mom’s acrostic about God and His doings: Continue reading →

The Sovereign One works with evil intent and deed to accomplish good.

This morning I read Psalm 6 by “mistake.” (I realized that only now as I typed the previous sentence!) According to my schedule, it was time to read Psalm 36. (October 6 is September 36, you know.)

Some verses seized my heart in this short Psalm, including these:

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak:
O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

My soul is also sore vexed:
but thou, O LORD, how long?

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul:
oh save me for thy mercies’ sake.

Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed:
let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

(Psalm 6:2-4,10)

Furthermore, something I read in the Psalm reminded me of this in the life of the Patriarch Joseph: Continue reading →