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God Is in Control
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Isaiah 46:9-11
It's easy to look around at our society and see that things are dramatically changing. It is also easy to feel like everything is out of control. Certainly there are many problems around us. There have been repeated economic shocks to our country. The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic will probably be felt for years to come. The moral underpinnings of our culture have been eroded. Evil and wickedness parade openly in the streets. Places we once thought of as safe, like schools and libraries, have in many cities become platforms for the morally-degrading indoctrination of young people. Yet despite all this, nothing is out of God's control.
Isaiah prophesied to people who were facing an imminent judgment from God that would see their country defeated in battle, their cities razed to the ground, and even the beautiful Temple that Solomon had built would be demolished. Yet despite all that impending doom, Isaiah's message was not one of fear. Instead he reminded the people that God was still in control.
While that did not mean that things would be easy, or that they would turn out the way people would have preferred, it did mean that there was hope in Him. That is just as true for us today. No matter how wicked our society may become, no matter how much judgment we may rightly receive from the hand of God, no matter how much opposition and even persecution we may face for standing for the truth, God is still in charge.
Nothing man does can change God's control and ultimate plan for His creation or His people.
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