Submission
"Be still, and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10 "Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases." Ps. 115:3 The Lord is growing me in my understanding of His sovereignty. He is God and I am not. Being God, He has the right to order the events of my life in accordance with His plan, not mine. I am to submit. He is powerful enough to order the events of my life for my good, He is good enough to want my good, and He is wise enough to know what that good is. My good, however, is never divorced from His glory because His glory is my good. "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart." Ps. 37:4 (If you delight yourself in the Lord, doesn't He become your desire?) I recently ran up against a situation that I believed was for my good, but God steered me away from it. I wanted (still sometimes do) to cling to what I thought was good, partly because I feared the Lord could not do better for me. I was h