He's Still Got the Whole World in His Hands

Just returned from my women’s small group. I’m so thankful that I have a group of women with whom I can meet weekly to talk, pray and process life. 

Today, we discussed Gregg’s new sermon series, He’s Still Got the Whole World in His Hands. Sometimes I forget that most of the Bible was written under extremely uncertain times and circumstances. It is filled with stories of people facing uncertainty and discovering that not only is God not absent, he is diligently at work accomplishing his will in the world and in the lives of those he loves.

Last Sunday, Gregg proposed that if you were to ask Jesus’ disciples when their time following Christ was the darkest, most fearful, and most uncertain, they probably would have told you that it surrounded the events of Jesus’ crucifixion. But he went on to also say, that if you were to ask those same disciples about when God was doing his greatest work, in hindsight, they probably would’ve also said it was during that same time of darkness, fear and uncertainty.

This is encouraging to me because even when life is uncertain, God is not. Even when it seems that my life has spun out of control, God is still in control. Even when his voice seems to be silent and his activity appears to be absent, He is still at work to accomplish his purpose. He’s still got the whole world in his hands.