Sovereignty???

“The Sovereignty of God is an expression that once was generally understood. It was a phrase commonly used in religious literature. It was a theme frequently expounded in the pulpit. It was a truth which brought comfort to many hearts, and gave virility and stability to Christian character. But, today, to make mention of God's Sovereignty is, in many quarters, to speak in an unknown tongue. Were we to announce from the average pulpit that the subject of our discourse would be the Sovereignty of God, it would sound very much as though we had borrowed a phrase from one of the dead languages. Alas! that it should be so. Alas that the doctrine which is the key to history, the interpreter of Providence, the warp and woof of Scripture, and the foundation of Christian theology should be so sadly neglected and so little understood!”
These are words written by A.W. Pink (by name, obviously not by nature on a deeper look into these words) in his book aptly titled The Sovereignty of God. He wrote this way before our time, and was prophetic in his understanding that this concept is seemingly from another world with another language.
It is a concept that the world we are immersed in and the Christian Subculture many of us find refuge in have emphatically eradicated from the Christian faith. The ironic slant to this is that it is one of the most reassuring, peace-giving, comforting truths in all of Christendom.
This truth for believers is that we are loved by a God who is in control and dominion over the movements of the sparrow and the power of the Tsunami. One who shall never be thwarted and who possesses power incomprehensible to assure that all will work out for His Glory and pleasure and the joy of the lives of those who love Him.

The problem lies in the first part of that last statement.
Many would ask, “Since when is this world about the glory of God foremost, surely God’s sole purpose is to exist to guarantee the most enjoyable life for me as a consumer?” These many therefore think that God is not sovereign. He is controlled by man (O great autonomous being that he is) who bounds all that God is able to do by insisting that man’s free will is the dominating force in all of creation.
We love a God that is sovereign over the ‘naughty little beasties’ that interrupt our comfortable little Christian journey; but how dare anyone suggest that God is able to do as He please, when He pleases, with whosoever He pleases!

Personally, my heart is most in awe of God because He alone is who He is, and His great and awesome Sovereign power is spent in securing salvation and eternal life for those whose futile power is spent in running into a life of self-absorbed (seemingly pleasurable for a season) lostness.
Are we willing to dive into the depths of this divine declaration of God’s sole supremacy over all that is? Dare you!