Is God in Control?

How “In Control” does God need to be?
Is there more going on behind the scenes than we can think or imagine? Many people ask questions about why God lets evil happen, why this, why that. I kind of think that since God is infinite, He has seen the end of all things and the beginning before He created anything because He has always been and will always be. He is. As a result, He knows to what level He must intervene in any situation in order for the world not to tumble into complete disarray and ironically with all the efforts of the enemy and God’s seeming lack of involvement (reasons why there are so many athiest/agnostics these days) one would think things are gonna fall apart. But I see one thing in scripture that stands out, God chooses people to do the stuff. What stuff? You know keeping the world from tumbling into disaster, from forgetting God, keeping a people set apart for Him to love Him. He saw faith in a man named Noah in a time where faith was forgotten. So he chose this blindly faithful man to save humanity and start anew. He saw an aggressive driven people in the descendants of Abraham, a people who would make many mistakes but do many amazing things too. A people who would be characterized as leaders and who would influence the world unlike any other while their influence would not always be attributed to them. So He chose Abraham and his descendants, the children of Israel. He saw a young man who would walk and trip, fly and fall, jump and skin his knee, but this young man would end well because he is holding to something no, someone greater. Someone who writes his story, someone who gives him His faith. This young man is me, and this someone is Jesus. So God chose me to reflect His glory, His love, His character, His power, His ways to the world. He’s chosen many of you too. Why? Because from His place outside of time and space, He saw our hearts, hearts that longed for more, for home, for the home in His heart. God is not afraid to appear vulnerable. He came to us as a baby in a cow stall. That’s vulnerable. So God is apparently quite comfortable in His sovereignty, so much so that perhaps He likes to partner with us. Perhaps He wants us to do the stuff and maybe some stuff doesn’t happen if “we” don’t do it. Jesus went about doing His Father’s business. Is God not our Father? Let us go about doing the Father’s business, I think it might just look a lot like what Jesus did… For that, you can read yourself…