Pete's Blog

I'm packing tonight to leave Ottawa tomorrow. In the process I just threw out the matress that I've slept on for the past three years. (It had certainly reached its time, in my mind.)

I brought it to the back door of the house, leaving it there, saying to Tristan that I would make a few more trips to the dumpster in the morning. I went back upstairs to keep working, went back downstairs and noticed that the matress was no longer there. It was obvious to me that Tristan had made the run to the dumpster for me. When I saw this, I was planning on saying to him upon his return, "Look, God took the matress away for me!" As I reflected on this I realized, Huh, that's how the Bible displays God's sovereignty; He expresses His sovereignty through means.

For example, in Esther when the Jews were near their end, God didn't just vaporize their adversaries, He raised up Esther to save the Jews. When Midian was near obliterating Israel, God raised up Gideon to go, in His power, to fight off the Midianites (Jd. 6-7).

As soon as I realized that God may very well have, for His own secret purpose, called Tristan to go dump my matress for me, I lifted Him a word of thanks.

I love believing in a God who is absolutely (i.e., completely, unconditionally) sovereign because every single thing that happens is for His good purpose.

"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose" (Rm. 8:28).

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