“Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock,” as Paul said, because there will come a day when fierce wolves will come in” to the church (Acts 20:29). Paul warned Timothy that people would have the “appearance of godliness” yet they would “deny the power of godliness” in the last days (2 Tim. 3:5). I believe that all history is God’s history. Your life, everything about you and I and everyone else, it all has to do with God’s sovereign providential rule. The Bible says that “in him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Christ “upholds the universe by the word of his power” and God has left nothing “outside Christ’s control” (Hebrews 1:2; 2:8). I do not believe in “luck” or “being outside of God’s will.” Such beliefs deny the biblical worldview that life is about God. You cannot escape God’s will. The real question is not are you in God’s will but are you in God’s will of grace or his will of judgment. God does all things for his glory (Rev. 4:11) because when he magnifies himself that is the best possible scenario. From the beginning to the end everything is about God’s glory. We will find our greatest pleasure when we come to view the universe in this light. God’s purpose is to make Himself known. His ultimate purpose is not anything else. And since this is God’s ultimate purpose we can say with Job and Daniel that we “know that you [God] can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted” (Job 42:2) because your “dominion is an everlasting dominion” and your “kingdom endures from generation to generation” (Daniel 4:34-35). This is God’s world, his household universe, and he governs it as the sovereign King.
