the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
2 Corinthians 5:18
‘All things are of God’
Read Isaiah 45:5-13 ; Romans 11:33-36
All things in providence are of God. ‘We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose’ (Romans 8:28). ‘For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever’ (Romans 11:36). Every event of providence is ordered and ruled according to the sovereign will of our God. The thoughts of men and the actions of men, good and bad, angels and demons, the path of every grain of dust on a windy day and the path of the whirlwind everything in this universe is absolutely under the control and direction of God’s sovereign providence. Nothing happens by accident. Our great God, in his sovereign majesty, rules everything with as much case as if there were nothing to rule. With undisturbed serenity, God rules! Because God rules all things, we know that all things will be so ruled of God as to bring about the spiritual and eternal good of all who trust him and all things will be to the praise of his glory, ‘According to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will’ (Ephesians 1:11). Because God is totally, absolutely, universally sovereign in providence, we know that his purpose will be accomplished and his promises will all be fulfilled. Anything less than a totally sovereign God cannot be confidently trusted.
All things are of God in salvation. ‘Salvation is of the Lord’ Jonah 2:9). ‘By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God’ (Ephesians 2:8). ‘Of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord’ (1 Corinthians 1:30-31). Election, redemption, regeneration, sanctification, preservation, resurrection and glorification are works of God alone. God gave us life. God gave us faith. God gave us a new heart and a new will by revealing Christ in us. And we ‘are kept by the power of God’ (1 Peter 1:5). We worship and trust and love the one true and living God, who is sovereign in creation, sovereign in providence and sovereign in salvation.
