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No one and no thing can thwart the will of God

AMEN! I hadn't read your posting of Isaiah 46 until now. Truly, as you remind us, God's will is irresistible because He is God, and God gets what He wants, one way or another.

Sometimes I think it must be difficult to comprehend the New Testament if we do not have a solid understanding of who God revealed Himself to be in the Old Testament. It is the same God. And the same salvation -- all by grace alone through faith alone in "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."

"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." -- Colossians 1:16-17

Thank you oh so very much for sharing your insights and encouragements, dear sister in Christ, and thank you for those beautiful Scriptures!

Sometimes I think it must be difficult to comprehend the New Testament if we do not have a solid understanding of who God revealed Himself to be in the Old Testament. It is the same God.

Indeed. Whether the Creation record of Genesis, the Exodus, the Law, the book of Job, the history of the patriarchs, prophets and the descendants Israel - always we see that God is sovereign, so far above all else that we must never anthropomorphize Him or lift any thing or any one equal to or above Him in our hearts and minds.

For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:8-9

Man is not the measure of God.

To God be the glory!