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Is God Sovereign over Nature?

 God is sovereign over nature and the forces of nature. In His Providence He either causes or allows natural disasters, calamities, earthquakes, viruses, and so forth which means that in God’s Providence He is in full control over what He sends or allows! God’s all-governing will doesn’t just have an awareness of when things live and die, they don’t do so without His knowledge and consent. God governs our lives and our deaths, and His governance over Creation and our lives are intended for us to give Him thanks and praise through our rejoicing! (Romans 1:20-21, Psalms 104:31, 33-34) At our redemption this current Natural created world will give us mercy without pain. The mysteries of this our natural world, are to stop our mouths and to cause us to be in awe of God. For He is merciful and compassionate. (James 5:11) 


Just because the Lord in His Providence is sovereign over nature, which includes our lives and our deaths, doesn’t mean that we sit back and do nothing. God has made us stewards of His Creation, 26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-28)


It is actually irresponsible to not take care of our planet, our bodies and other people and their bodies. While God has given us stewardship, we are not doing this on our own. We are stewarding this planet and creation along with God. We have to keep this in mind, when God’s creation comes into conflict with itself. We have to respect the free choice of other moral human beings without denying God’s sovereignty and control over our lives and ultimately the lives of all. We don’t live in a theocracy. A theocracy is a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. Just because God ultimately rules this planet, we have to give other people the right to make a free choice. 


We have to be careful though that we are not acting against the will of God, because at that point the Lord has the right to judge those who disobey His commandments. We shouldn’t take this role as stewards of God’s creation lightly, because not only are we working with the Lord but we are accountable to Him presently and also in the future. One day we will all meet the Lord face to face and we will then have to give an account of our lives to Him, (Romans 14:12 “So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God”) and one of those things we will be accountable for is our stewardship of this planet and everything and everyone we came into contact with, while we lived our lives on Earth! This is Mike! 


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