08 Dec Ten Reasons to Believe God is Still in Control
We are living in the greatest upheaval since World War II. The Covid pandemic began last March, causing significant uncertainty for the physical health of all Americans. We thought/hoped it would disappear by the summer. It didn’t. It reasserted its self in the fall, and later spiked as cold weather began.
As a result of the pandemic, a shutdown was widely ordered, causing incalculable financial upheaval and social disruption, resulting in immeasurable personal upheaval, unemployment, depression, suicide, abuse, medical-neglect illnesses, and anxiety.
In the midst of this, we had an election when America was more polarized than since the Civil War. Then, massive evidence has been discovered of voter fraud, organized crime, and possible foreign interference in an attempt to steal the election. Results are still pending. It is not over.
This has Americans more on edge than we have been since World War II, and facing challenges to our national integrity that are greater than since the Civil War.
In the midst of all this, Christmas is still coming. Almost seems incongruous.
While we must still be engaged with everything going on around us, while we must still be responsible stewards of the world in which God has placed us, the coming of Christmas reminds us that there are eternal truths that are greater than temporal truths, and can comfort and stabilize us in the face of present uncertainty.
Here are ten reasons to believe God is still in control.
- God exists: “Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.” Romans 1:20
- God is good: “No one is good except God alone.” Mark 10:18
- God is all powerful: “Whatever His soul desires, He does it.” Job 23:13
- God is with us: “Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they shall name Him Immanuel,” which translated means, “God with us.” Isaiah 7:14
- God has a master plan for all humanity/history: “I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My plan will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure.’” Isaiah 46:9-10
- God will use everything for good: “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28
- God will use trials for His purposes: “Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” James 1:2-4
- God will reward us disproportionately for everything we suffer for Him: “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18
- Jesus will return to set everything right: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
- In the end, all will be well: “God Himself will be among [His people] and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelation 21:3-4
Conclusion
So, at Christmas time, we are reminded that these ten truths could not be true without Christmas.
Jesus is central to it all. He came the first time as a baby to die for our sins. He will come a second time as a king to establish righteousness.
Between the past and the future, things are not out of control.
We are not at the mercy of history. We are His children. He loves us. He is with us. The Bible is still true. He is in the process of doing ultimate good for us. He will give us grace for today, and see us through to tomorrow.
The turmoil, uncertainty and pain of this present time will one day be set right. We can go into the future to borrow this ultimate truth, and bring it back to today for our peace, comfort and joy.
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