God alone is Sovereign
A Message from Paula Davis, contributing writer

Psalm 86:10
Romans 8:28
I remember when I was a little girl, I used to play “house.” I’m sure many of you remember that make-believe game where you pretended you were an adult and you imitated what you thought being an adult was like. Maybe when you played “house,” you donned on an apron and pulled out your easy bake oven; or maybe if you’re a guy, you put on a fake fire-fighter uniform or police uniform and pretended to go to work like your father. In my version of the role-playing game, I would march around the house with my fake plastic pink and purple high-heels on that my mom bought from the grocery store. I would have my baby doll on one hip, (and because I was a working mom) I would have one of my stuffed animals to be the nanny. I look back on these memories and laugh. But one thing that is no laughing matter is when we think we can play “God.” Have you ever tried to play that game? As spiritually mature Christian adults we should know better, but our actions often show many of us are still behaving like young children in our belief system.
In Psalm 86:10, the psalmist writes, “For you are great and do marvelous deeds: you alone are God.” How many times have we been in a situation or a loved one has been in a dire situation and we have tried to play “God” and fix it? I recently found myself in a situation where I felt that I knew what was best for an individual, and God knows I tried to do everything I could to make it the way I thought it should be. Now I’m not saying that God doesn’t give us a brain and wisdom, but ultimately He alone is God. He alone knows what we need to mature in our faith and what trials and storms to bring our way. You see, God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Those are just some fancy words to say simply He is all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere. We as human beings are fallible, fallen, and limited in what we know. We don’t have all the variables, as God does, to know how the situation should come out and how it will come out if we take our hands off of it.
Sometimes we aren’t allowed to fully know how God is using the different circumstances in our lives or the lives of those we care about to make us more holy; and while Ephesians 5:1 does command us to be “imitators of God,” the idea is that we are to imitate the holiness of God, we can never actually be God. 1 Cor.13:9-11 states, “For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” On this earth what we can know is partial, it is not our place to try and manipulate others or any situation to fit what we think should be the needed outcome. I know that some situations can be painful to endure and some situations can be painful to watch others endure, but trust God. He alone is God, and only He is all powerful. It may not seem good at the time, but if you truly have a relationship with God, you can believe that He knows what He’s doing better than you. Have you given up your childish ways? Are you trusting that as Romans 8:28 says that, “God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to His purpose?” or all you still trying to fill His role yourself?