OUR SOVEREIGN LORD

 

                            By A. W. Tozer

 

The most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands

 ... Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool.

                                                                 -Acts 7:48-49

 

    How can you be a Christian and not be aware of the

sovereignty of the God who has loved us to the death?

 

    To be sovereign.  God must be the absolute, infinite,

unqualified ruler in all realms in heaven and earth and

sea.  To  be  Lord  over  all  the  creation,  He  must  be

omnipotent.  He  must be  omniscient.  He  must be

omnipresent.

 

    With all that is within me, I believe that the crucified

and risen and glorified Savior, Jesus Christ, is the

sovereign Lord.

 

     He takes no orders from anyone.  He has no counselors

and no advisers.  He has no secretary to the throne.  He

knows in the one effortless act all that can be known and

He has already lived out our tomorrows and holds the

world in the palm of His hand.

 

     That is the Lord I serve!  I gladly own that I am His;

glory to God!  The Christ we know and serve is infinitely

beyond all men and all angels and all archangels; above

all principalities and powers and dominions, visible and

invisible - for He is the origin of them all!

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        Yours in Christ,

        Paul N. F.