Sovereign God

Trust.

What does it really mean?

Dictionary.com--"reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence."

Sovereign.

Dictionary.com--"being above all others in character, importance, excellence, etc."

What the heck do these words have to do with eachother, you ask? Good question.

Well let's think about it for a second...if someone was truly above all others in character, importance, and excellence then wouldn't you rely on that person's integrity, ability, and strengh assuming they were a just person? I would.

Seems simple, right?

Now let's say that not only do you have to trust that person with some things, but ALL things. You trust that person with your entire life. You give them control and let them run everything. No exceptions.

Seems a little harder now, huh?

Well this is what I have been struggling with. As christians we are called to surrender our lives to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We need to trust Him with everything. We need to give Him all control because when it comes down to it...He's in control of everything anyway. Take it from me, this is not an easy task. But why is that? Shouldn't it be easy? We know from the Word of God, that He is in control. He's got it all covered. He is Sovereign. All-powerful. All-knowing. Everlasting. Faithful. Loving. Forgiving. Just. Wrathful. Merciful. Wonderful. Perfect. Shouldn't it be easy to trust someone as awesome as Him? It should be.

Sin.

Dictionary.com--"any act regarded as such a transgression, esp. a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle."

Selfish.

Dictionary.com--"devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others."

Pride.

Dictionary.com--"a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc" (In other words, the root of all sin.)

We are sinners. We are selfish. We are proud.

Because of our sinful, selfish, proud nature, we find it difficult to completely give over our lives to Christ. We think that we can handle everything on our own. We think that we are so amazing that it will be no big deal. When it's all laid out like that...we are really stupid people. Everytime, however, we fail on our own. We need His control in our life. We need to trust His sovereignty to survive. If we have the option to let God sit in the driver seat of our lives than why would we even want to drive?

God is continuing to show me in many ways that there is no way I will make it without Him. I always trust Him for awhile and then fall away again. But the great thing is that God is faithful and he constantly brings me back to Him and reminds me that I MUST trust Him.

We are weak and powerless. God is sovereign.

^"13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, ¹⁴to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶ who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen." I Timothy 6:13-16 ESV