Did you know that God directs every man's steps? Jeremiah 7-11

Jeremiah 10:23-24 (NASBStr)

I know, O Lord, that a man’s way is not in himself,

 Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

 Correct me, O Lord, but with justice;

Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Note also the following proverbs in light of the above passage of Jeremiah:

Proverbs 16:1 (NASBStr)

 The plans of the heart belong to man,

But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Proverbs 20:24 (NASBStr)

Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord,

How then can man understand his way?

When you talk to man about God's sovereign control over the affairs of man you will get a lot of objection.  Man is so convinced of their free will they react, sometimes violently, to the thought or belief that God directs their every step in life.  As if the story of Job is just that, a story, the forsake the fact that God can and does intervene in their lives to cause them to walk where He wants them to walk.  Jeremiah tells the nation that they are not in charge of their own steps and that God will correct them and administrate justice to them.  But, it is not in man to "direct his steps."   Man, without God's common grace and elective grace would kill one another, without measure.  It is only the sustaining grace of God that prevents man's sin to consume him.   God directs his steps to assure that man can be given grace ... redemptive grace.   God does make man do evil.  But, God can direct man by simply removing HIs grace and allow man to do what he does naturally ... sin.   It is God's intervening grace that directs man's steps that prevents him from destroying himself and others.   Our plans are nice, but they are only accomplished because of God sustaining grace in our lives.