“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,
a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles’?”
– Isaiah 45:9
We have a natural tendency to argue with God about how He chooses to exercise His sovereignty over the universe. We argue about the challenges and limitations He places in our lives which we don’t appreciate. We question the catastrophes that seem to be everywhere these days. In our radical autonomy we make ourselves God and simply deny the reality of what He created and how He created us.
Woe to us when we do! Our modern culture – churched and unchurched – has far too high of an opinion of ourselves and our wisdom and far too low of an opinion of God and His wisdom. God is indeed supreme and sovereign. He is all-knowing, all-wise, and all-good and He sees across time. We can either expend our energy battling against that and trying to enlist others to join in our denial of reality -OR- we can trust in God’s wisdom and goodness, even when we can’t understand it because we are finite and He is infinite.
When we trust in God rather than battle Him, there’s a wonderful peace that comes from simply asking our Creator each day how we can best glorify Him by living within His plan rather than rebelling against it. There is a joy from pursuing an ever-deepening relationship with our Creator rather than wasting our life battling Him.