Does God's Sovereignty Reign in Your Life?Sample

In the Temple Moments  

In this passage, David looks all around at the palace he was living in as King of Israel and compares it to where the presence of God was dwelling—in a tent called the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle was originally created to be a movable, temporary setting as the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness without a permanent home. David’s plan was to build God a permanent and much nicer home—a Temple. What a fantastic plan David had! He wanted to do something for God with his time, his effort, and with his life! Surely God would be all for this, right? 

Wrong. In verse 12, God makes it very clear that this temple will be built but only after David has died. In verse 13, we find that God’s plan is also for someone else to build it—David’s son. In other words, David’s plan for his life is different than God’s plan for his life even to the point that someone else would accomplish what David wanted to. This is what we call a “temple moment.”

Have you ever experienced a “temple moment” like this? Even to the point, like David was in, where you find out that God is even going to allow someone else to accomplish what you wanted? Has God allowed someone else to get the achievements in academics, sports, band, etc. that you studied and practiced for, or has He allowed someone else to get the job and promotion you wanted and applied for, or has God even allowed someone else to be healed when you were praying for healing yourself?  

So how do you know if God’s sovereignty is reigning in your life in this type of moment? Your response is like David’s in verse 25 of this chapter—“O LORD God…do as thou hast said.” David shows no anger with God (which is so easy to do) nor does he seem to question God and why His plan is different than his own; he simply submits to God’s plan knowing that God was in control all along. His response reminds us of Jesus in the garden right before his arrest and crucifixion when he prayed to His Father—“not my will, but thine be done.”  That’s the attitude of someone who has the sovereignty of God reigning in the “temple moments” of their life. 

MEDITATION FOR THE DAY: Think of some of these “temple moments” in YOUR life where God’s plan was different from your plan for your life and how you initially felt and how you feel now looking back at those moments.