God Reigns | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1874

God Reigns.

In the darkness and uncertainty of the present time, this truth should cheer and encourage the Christian. That he has often permitted evil, we know to be a fact. The reason why he does so, is a problem we are not able to solve. But we do know that he has not only declared that he has power to restrain and control it, but he has often proved that he has this power. As volcanoes and hurricanes are often terrible in their effects, yet they are made to subserve important purposes in the arrangements of our earth; so God also causes the wrath of man to praise him, and at the same time proves to him that he has supreme control. For illustrations of this fact, we need look no further than Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to the accusers of Daniel, and to the murderers of Jesus Christ. And amid the storm now gathering, we should remember that God still rules. He holds the hearts of all men in his hand, and their acts are altogether under his control. He is not the author of evil; but he can overrule it for good. “The Lord Omnipotent reigneth,” and we may and ought to exercise confidence in him.