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Living in Light of God's Sovereignty

God is sovereign over all. He predestined everything, including the Fall, all according to His good will and pleasure (Eph. 1:11). We also know that for the elect, for those who love God, all things work together for good because of God's sovereign control over all things (Rom. 8:28). So how do we live in light of this? Do we "let go and let God," meaning, do we take a whatever will be, will be attitude and not work towards or strive for anything? Hardly. What happens when pain and sorrow comes? Do we not go to God in prayer, do we not find ourselves on our knees, on our faces? We tend to take the que sera sera attitude until we find ourselves in painful or difficult situations. Then we think prayer and action might be worth a try. As a Christian, I sin a lot, in thought, word, and deed. I don't read my Bible enough, and I don't pray enough. I try to figure things out through what I have learned from Scripture largely void of prayer and reading Scripture direc