This sounds blasphemous to most people to say that God is not in control of what is happening. Most Christians believe that God is controlling their lives and the life of everybody else. But the scriptures are very clear on this. He is not.
Most people think that God’s will happens automatically and that whatever He wants will not happen but this isn’t the case. Not everything God wants comes to pass. His will doesn’t happen automatically.
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2Pet3:9
This verse is very clear. God is not willing for anyone to perish and go to hell. It is not His will. And yet the majority are dying and going to hell every single day. Even Jesus said that narrow is the gate that leads to life and there are few that find it and broad is the gate that leads to destruction and many are they that find it. It is clear that God’s will in this case is not happening. How do you explain that?
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” 3Jn2
God wants for us above all things to prosper and be healthy. It is His will clearly revealed. And yet it is not happening for most of us. Most Christians are sick and broke and failing. And yet it is not God’s will. His will is that they be healthy and successful. His will is not coming to pass. How do you explain that?
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” Jn10:10
God’s will is for us to have abundant life. He died to give us this life. And yet most of us are not having abundant life. We are miserable and just surviving. This is not God’s will for us.
“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” 1Pet1:15-16
God wants us to live a holy life. He doesn’t want us to sin and yet we all sin every single day. This is not God’s will for us. And yet it is happening.
Genesis 2
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
God didn’t want Adam to eat the fruit and yet he ate it and led all of us into bondage and slavery to sin. It was not God’s will for Adam to do this. And yet it happened. Why? By now you can see a clear trend. God has revealed what His will is but it is not happening. Instead the opposite keeps happening. People keep doing and experiencing the opposite of what God wants. If He is in control and nothing happens without Him allowing it then how come these clear violations of His will keep happening? The answer is simple and yet profound.
God is not in control. Man is in control. Whatever is happening is because man has allowed it to happen. It is man that has the authority to determine what happens here on earth and what doesn’t. We are the ones that choose to fail or sin or follow our own paths. We are the ones that accept sickness and disease and poverty and lack and failure. It is not God, it is us.
“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live” Deut30:19
God gave us the responsibility of choosing life or death, blessing or cursing. He even told us what to choose. It is your choice what you will experience. It is not bring death and curses to you. It is you choosing them.
“ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Prov18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue. The words we speak produce either death or life for us. What we say is what happens to us. You have what you say. Many of us are constantly speaking death in our lives and then when it happens we blame God for it. God doesn’t control everything. It is not true. God is not in control. You are.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Gen1:26
God gave people dominion over the earth. This word dominion means to reign, to be in control, to rule, to take over, to subdue, to govern etc. We are the ones in control of the earth and whatever is happening here. We are the ones in charge. Whatever is happening is our fault. Not God’s.
Psalm8
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
God has put us in charge of all creation and over the whole earth. We are the ones responsible for what is happening here. Not Him.
“The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.” Psa115:16
God has given us rulership and dominion over the earth. It is us who determine what happens in the earth. Stuff happens because we allow it to happen, not because God allows it to happen. All of us have done something stupid or made some really dumb decision that has brought us incredible pain and suffering. We shouldn’t now turn and blame God for it. It is our fault. God is doing everything He can to bless us, keep us, save and protect us. He is doing the best He can considering the circumstances and limitations we have imposed on Him by our unbelief and hardness of heart. His will only happens to the extent that we submit to Him and allow Him to operate through us.
“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” Eph3:20
God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think. This is all very true. But this verse puts a condition that we all ignore. It says God does this ‘according to the power that works in us’
It is not automatic. It is dependent on our faith and yielding to Him. If we don’t believe and yield to Him there’s very little He can do. We limit Him.
It is why we must pray. So that we can authorize God to be involved on earth and in our lives. “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint” Lk18:1
It why Jesus told us to pray like this; “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Mat6:9-10
Jesus knew that God’s will doesn’t happen automatically. He knew that we are the ones in charge and that when we want God to operate we have to authorize Him through our prayer of faith.
Matthew18
18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
We are responsible for whatever is happening. What we allow or loose is what happens. What we forbid or bind doesn’t happen.
As it has been aptly said before, 'without God man cannot, without man God will not'
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