Men love God to be everywhere except when he is on his throne. When he is there, he is revealed to be Sovereign. As you noted in one of my favorite verses, nothing, not even something insignificant as the death of a little bird, happens apart from the Father. It is in him we breath and move and have our being.
Not even random seeming events are beyond the LORD: The lot is cast in the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Let those who oppose the Reformation, who act as the enemies of God, remember that they are but the clay and have no right to demand: “What are you doing?” It is only for men to bow before the Lord and acknowledge he is the the Alpha & Omega, the beginning and the end. What is so insignificant that it is beyond the perfection of God? Even the wind and waves know his voice and obey. OF him, FOR him, and TO him are all things.
“Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD?” ~ Exodus 4:11
AMEN!
"The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them." -- Proverbs 20:12
Men love God to be everywhere except when he is on his throne. When he is there, he is revealed to be Sovereign.
AMEN. We have been so saturated with the worldly opinion that we are our own epicenter, and that the world, even God, revolves around us, that it's really difficult to pry our eyes off of ourselves and place them on God alone.
God either controls everything, according to His own definition of Himself and the reality He has created, or He doesn't exist.
To think something is outside of His providence denies His own perfect, holy, omnipotent essence.
What exists today, exists because God, for reasons known only to Himself, wants it this way today. Tomorrow, many things will most likely be different, and they, too, will exist by and for and through the will of God, for His glory.
But throughout all the change and turmoil and doubt, His love for His family is constant; His promises are all true.
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -- Romans 8:35-39"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Gratitude is the proper perspective.