in The Gospel Messenger, vol.16 no.5 (May 1894)
WHAT POWER CAN HINDER HIM from reigning, when
the powers that be are ordained of Him, and He working all
things after the counsel of His own will? If there was something
that He (God) did not have perfect control of, then there might
be a possibility of Him (God) not reigning. But we hear David
saying, “The wrath of man shall praise Him, and the remainder
of wrath will He restrain.” We learn by this that all over and
above that will praise God, He restrains.
We see a manifestation of this in the case of Job. The Lord
told the devil he could go so far and no farther; and in the case
of the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage;
and also in the case of Joseph. Joseph’s brethren thought to
kill Joseph, but God did not intend they should, and so the
men came along (not by chance at all) and bought Joseph. “God
works in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.” It is by
Him that all things work together for good to them that are
called, according to His purpose. We may not understand or see
how this can be, yet it is so. |
