Sovereignty II

More about God's "sovereignty" (which is a fancy way of saying that God is in control of everything; it means different things to different people, depending on how they think God exerts his control)...

I was thinking the other day that God might actually be more involved in my life than I thought. I think before I had this belief that God was only involved sometimes, like when I begged him to be, or when he needed to swoop in and save me from my own awful mess, or when he came in just to give me a brief consult on how to not make everything go in the crapper.

Partly because this is the way I tend to act with other people. I tend to be pretty laissez-faire. I kind of just let things go and don't act until I absolutely have to. But God is probably a little more involved than that. He's not your dad sitting on the couch watching football until you scream loud enough to get his attention. In fact, he's probably right there with you, watching what's going on in your life, focused on what you're thinking and feeling about things, but not being overly controlling...

This has changed things for me. It reminded me that this whole thing we got going on here is God's project - it's his thing. It was his idea. We are just small players working with and for him. God is including us on his thing.