When things don\u2019t go their way politically\u2014or otherwise\u2014people, many of whom are believers, start bewailing circumstances as if God had died. Let me speak a word to all who will listen: God\u2019s still in complete control of everything. The world isn\u2019t out of control.\u00a0 He\u2019s still providentially at work in His world. Of course things in our homes, in our country and even in our churches haven\u2019t always gone well. We live in a world that has been cursed by sin. We live in a world where unappreciative people go their way never thanking God for the many benefits that they enjoy and, in particular, for the grace that led Him to send us His Son to die for guilty sinners like us. Why should we expect anything from God? We have all too often thought and acted as though we were the masters of our future\u2014even though we may have professed otherwise.<\/p>\n
All we should expect is His vengeance for our ingratitude.<\/p>\n
And if you think about it what does a country like ours, that has been blessed so greatly, really deserve? Surely, a lot worse than we have yet seen. We have been a rebellious nation, bent on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When things don\u2019t go their way politically\u2014or otherwise\u2014people, many of whom are believers, start bewailing circumstances as if God had died. Let me speak a word to all who will listen: God\u2019s still in complete control of everything. The world isn\u2019t out of control.\u00a0 He\u2019s still providentially at work in His world. Of course things …
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