I do not fully understand how human free will and God’s sovereignty work together but somehow they do. Somehow God allows us to make choices and yet He has never once lost control.
When we look at the very story of the cross, it almost would seem that God had lost control. Days before Jesus rode into town on a donkey with the people chanting, “Hosanna, blessed if He who comes in the name of the Lord.”
And yet during this time the religious leaders of the day were plotting His death because their power was fading daily with the ministry of Jesus and the rules that they imposed upon the people to keep them down were being torn away.
And in less than a week, the entire city turned on Jesus and He was put to death. It seemed the religious leaders had succeeded. Yet we know because of the resurrection that they failed. Yet the death of Christ and God’s plan of Redemption was God’s plan all along.
All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast-all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. Rev 13:8
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isa. 53:5-6
The religious leaders thought they were getting rid of Jesus, yet they played right into the hands of a Sovereign God. Did they make choices? Absolutely. But God never once lost control.
My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything. James 1:2-4
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