Establishing Leadership - Psalm 75-77

Perhaps the hardest thing for believers to grasp in regard to God, let alone non-believers, is the teaching from God's Word that God is sovereign and in complete control of all things. It may be the most difficult doctrine to embrace because you can't have God "almost" sovereign. The word itself means that there is total control and complete autonomy. But in Psalm 75:6-8 we read that it is God who establishes leader. It is not the vote of the people that makes the leader but God who puts one up and takes another down (although God uses people's vote to accomplish his choice for leadership). In Psalm 76:10 we see the sovereignty of God talked about when Asaph the writer states that even the "wrath" of man praise God ... God so controls the world that the anger of man to man or the anger of man to God is somehow a way for God to be praised. God is in complete control. We need to embrace it and praise it. We may not understand it or be able to comprehend it but we must believe it by faith. Give God the glory for who He is. Don't reduce Him in size so that you can feel better about understanding Him. I have never understood why a man thinks he should be able to understand God completely and put Him in a box He has systematically designed. Who wants a God they can understand? If I can understand God that would make me ... god ... and that is the problem. Man so much wants to be a god he continues to reduce God to something or someone he can understand. If I reduce God I can actually be like Him .... that is the thought of modern man. Don't reduce God - Excalt Him.