God’s Sovereignty
Throughout the Bible, we see evidence of God’s authority over both humanity and nature. However, many of us wrestle with a difficult question: How do we reconcile God’s sovereign control with the existence of evil? Scripture doesn’t give us every answer, but it does give us a place to stand. In the beginning, God created a perfect world and declared that all He had made was good. (Genesis 1:31) Evil wasn't part of what He had fashioned. God created human beings with the capacity to love Him, and love requires the freedom to choose. When Adam and Eve chose disobedience, sin entered our world and corrupted mankind. Evil wasn’t created by God; it’s something that He despises but sovereignly has permitted to exist within a fallen world. Yet, even in the midst of such darkness, He's at work redeeming what sin has broken. How He does this remains one of the greatest questions of our faith, reminding us that His ways and thoughts are higher than ours. When aspects of God’s sovereignty feel perplexing, start with what you do know: He is good, He is in control, and He invites us to trust Him, especially with what we can’t yet understand.
