Deuteronomy 32:39
“‘See now that I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Tag: God Is In Control
We often, as mankind, think that we are in control of our lives. We are not. We often have the sense that we can do what we want, but, in realty we can’t. In the above text we are jumping into the middle of a poem/song Moses has written just before his death. He wants the next generation of Israelites to follow God with all their soul, might and strength. To help them in that process he wants to remind them of an aspects of God’s Divine character. God is sovereign in all that He does. The above passage, very much echos a similar passage in Isaiah:
Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness,
I make well-being and create calamity,
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
God makes all that happens, happen. He does so without compromising his holiness. God can create calamity and can cause death and wounds to happen, without bringing damage to His desire for goodness. God can bring light, make alive and heal and it doesn’t disappoint His desire for justice. God is sovereign in all that He does. We can rejoice in that truth no matter what life might give to us.
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