Sovereignty

         Hopefully, I learned a lot at college.  One thing I learned right at the beginning was that the professor was sovereign in his classroom.  There was to be no declaring that the professor was unfair or could not do whatsoever he wanted in the class.   I took some classes during the summer that were only two weeks long.  I started on Monday facing a mid-term on Friday with a final exam on the next Friday.  There was another class where the professor required each student to prepare a long chart of the complete book that we were studying mapping out repeated themes and words throughout the book.  Some of these charts were twenty feet long and written on "butcher" paper.  There were many that complained but the answer was always in the sovereignty of the professor in his class.  He could require whatever he wanted to require.  We also learn something about sovereignty when we observe just how God works in our lives.  Genesis18:25 says, "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"   
       There may be those times when we have a desire to declare that God is unfair in His dealings with people.  We might be quick to declare how we would do things if we were in charge and with our minimal knowledge of the situation.  The scene in Genesis 18 is the bargaining of Abraham with God in regard to Sodom.  The dialogue contains the above statement, "...Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"  The statement declares that whatever God does is going to be right.  God is the Creator of everything in the universe and of course everything that He does is right.  Abraham pleaded with God  and went from fifty to ten righteous people in Sodom and if there had been ten righteous people, God would have spared the city, but there wasn't.  We know the outcome.  Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed and in that judgment, we declare that God is Sovereign.  If that were the only characteristic that God had, we might be fearful, but God is also just, and holy, and omniscient, and omnipotent, and omnipresent, and love, and truth.  Yes, God's characteristics don't just stop with His Sovereignty but include all that He is and thus we can echo the words of Abraham, "...shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"  It is a rhetorical question.  Yes, God always does right even in the things that we sit and wonder about.   So, praise God today for His sovereignty as we see His handiwork each and every day.