If he can’t govern that moment, he can’t govern the rest of your life and do the miracles you need for him to do. And in your pain, you shoved him so far to the edge of the universe that for the rest of your life you are crying out to a God to do miracles, but you have pushed him away. His governance of the universe cannot oversee it, if you cannot have a God who in any way would ordain that it come to pass. You have just shoved him off into a realm where he can’t have anything to do with what happened.

“God is so sovereign that he can turn everything for your everlasting, glorious good.” And if you try to solve the problem of God’s sovereignty at the moment of crisis and push him so far out of that moment of causality - so far to the edges - you know what is going to happen? You will now be left with no God to help you deal with this and turn it good. Secondly, you need to believe that God is sovereign, so sovereign, over that moment that he can turn everything for your glorious and everlasting good. You need to believe that God is right there disapproving.

I command you not to do that!” God hates what he sees and will approve of judgment. And when he was looking at the abuser he was saying, “Don’t do that! That is contrary to my will. One need is to believe God hates what happened there. I don’t know how you would have answered before, but I have tried to give you a structure of biblical thought to know how to answer that question in a way that not only corresponds with the reality of biblical truth, but with the deep needs of your soul. And somebody asks you, Do you think that was the will of God? And somebody is trying to help you, counsel you, and work through the implications of that. Some uncle sexually abused you, or a dad. Suppose you were abused as a child and it has borne sad fruit for many years.

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