Is God Really Sovereign? Or is it:  Random Chance And Happenstance? Perhaps your answer might be something like: Well, of course He is! That’s my answer too. Theologically, I know God is sovereign. However, the practical, everyday ramification of God's sovereignty is permeating me more than it ever has before.

No … not really … but … It’s amazing how many people ask right off: “Do you no longer celebrate such-and-such a holiday?” Or, “Is that pagan too?” Or, “Are you not able to eat this either?” It seems that in most people’s minds this Hebraic life is defined by what we don’t or can’t do. Right away it’s all cast in a negative light in peoples’ perceptions. And you know what … I get it. I really do.

Our Source of Life Matthew 4:4 — But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Notwithstanding: To not be willing. To not consent, yield, accept or desire. Deuteronomy 1:26 - Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God.

I wonder how many of God’s people walk around with a smile on their faces only because they would feel vulnerable to express where they really are in their journey with the Lord? But the truth is, that when God saves a person’s soul, He doesn’t plant a permanent smile on our faces. Real people aren’t always “up.” Everyone, at one time or another, gets to the place where things just seem overwhelming. It’s at that point we have to decide how we are going to move forward.