I believe that every particle of
dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God
wishes—that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its
orbit as well as the sun in the heavens—that the chaff from the hand of the
winnower is steered as the stars in their courses. The creeping of an aphid
over the rosebud is as much fixed as the march of the devastating
pestilence—the fall of sere leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the
tumbling of an avalanche. He that believes in a God must believe this truth.
There is no standing-point between this and atheism. There is no half way
between a mighty God that worketh all things by the sovereign counsel of his
will and no God at all. A God that cannot do as he pleases—a God whose will is
frustrated, is not a God, and cannot be a God. I could not believe in such a
God as that. (C. H.
Spurgeon)
Nor could I...
God fills the whole universe; there is no room for another god. Christ will be
all or nothing... we will be all or nothing in Him. And this does not invoke
fate as the arbiter of life. Fate is, Whatever is must be,
while the Providence of God is, Whatever God ordains must be. The omniscient and
purposeful God plants purpose in everything He ordains or allows... He has a
plan for His creation! And we are His workmanship! Therein lies the difference
between Fate and Providence. As Spurgeon said, “There is all the difference between Fate
and Providence that there is between a man with good eyes and a blind
man."
GOD IS IN CONTROL
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