6 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee? (Deuteronomy 32:6).
God’s sovereignty is based on His authority. The authority of God is over all that He created. God created us and therefore He has dominion over us. An interesting point here is that since God as an extension of His authority establishes us, we are owned by God. We are therefore, in many respects, not our own. This has profound ethical and moral connotations. We only have dominion over what God has declared as being under our dominion. We often think of our bodies and minds as being under our dominion. But this is not so, we are God’s. He made us and established us. We should therefore submit our bodies and minds to God. We often seem to get it backwards and desire God to submit to our thoughts, and we think that we own our bodies. God certainly does allow us to choose, but we should choose in accordance with His will, not our own. It is a matter of ownership.
God’s sovereignty is based on His authority. The authority of God is over all that He created. God created us and therefore He has dominion over us. An interesting point here is that since God as an extension of His authority establishes us, we are owned by God. We are therefore, in many respects, not our own. This has profound ethical and moral connotations. We only have dominion over what God has declared as being under our dominion. We often think of our bodies and minds as being under our dominion. But this is not so, we are God’s. He made us and established us. We should therefore submit our bodies and minds to God. We often seem to get it backwards and desire God to submit to our thoughts, and we think that we own our bodies. God certainly does allow us to choose, but we should choose in accordance with His will, not our own. It is a matter of ownership.
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