Jerry Bridges, Trusting God:
No one can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it (Lamentations 3:37).…God is in control, but in His control He always allows us to experience pain. The pain is very real. We hurt, we suffer. But in the midst of our suffering we muct believe that God is in control; that He is sovereign.…Nothing is so small or trivial as to escape the attention of God’s sovereign control; nothing is so great as to be beyond His power to control it. The insignificant sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His will; the mighty Roman empire cannot crucify Jesus Christ unless that power is given to it by God (Matthew 10:29; John 19:10-11).
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