The Sovereignty Of God

Psalm 29:10 – “The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord sits enthroned as king forever.”

God is sovereign over His creation!

A website called ABC Science has this to say:

When we think of the big things in the universe, we think planets, stars and galaxies. And while Earth seems big from where we sit, it's pretty puny as far as the solar system goes: you could fit more than a million earths inside the sun.

But our sun (which is a star) is no galactic giant either. It's nothing compared to the really big stars. The biggest known star, VY Canis Majoris, is 2000 times the size of the sun.

But it's not just the size of stars that's big, it's the number of them as well. Best estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at around two hundred billion. That's 200,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy alone!

And there are plenty more galaxies out there. In fact, it looks like there are around two hundred billion galaxies as well. If you multiply the number of galaxies by the average number of stars in them, you get the number of stars in the universe, which is something like a million billion billion stars.

In Genesis 1:16, where it’s recorded that God made the sun and the moon, it says at the end of verse 16, “He made the stars also”. Like it was an afterthought and it took no effort at all. He’s the Creator! He’s sovereign!

Isaiah 40:22 – “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.”

And that’s just what we can see with our eyes!

The Unseen World

There is an unseen physical world as well as an unseen spiritual world.

We are familiar with what the Bible teaches about unseen angels and demons and what goes on in the spiritual realm. We know that God has infinite power over Satan and his demons. We see this throughout Scripture especially when Jesus encountered the devil in the wilderness and the multitude of times he cast demons out of people. We also know from Scripture that Satan’s doom is sure and one day he and his demons will be cast into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone for ever and ever.

Yet there is an unseen physical world that we find hard to see with our eyes unless we have help with technology. This microscopic world has many people today very paranoid.

When it comes to small things, we find in Matthew 10:29-30 that Jesus says, “Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”

But when it comes to even smaller things, in Paul’s letter to the Colossians, we find God the Son being credited with being sovereign over them too:

Col 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.

Col 1:17 He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (sunistao¯ - hold together). Keep your finger on this verse.