The Lord God’s power in creation merges into his sovereign control of human history. The Lord God’s attention to the working details in creation merges with his attention to the details of every person and nation, their individual and collective soul’s emotions, thoughts, and will. He who forms the hearts of all considers everything we do. He knows us even better than we know ourselves and acts accordingly for the well-being of ourselves.
The Lord God does not allow the will of the human heart to spin downward into the depths of depression, misery, and hell without intervention. He does not force his creation into submission to our best life course. Rather, he gives us choices allowing us to make the right step-by-step choice, the better choices. The Lord Jesus does not force us into submission. He tells us and shows us the right and good life. Blessed is the nation and person whose God is the Lord, the people he chooses for his inheritance. The people who accept his good plans. The people who accept him.
The plans of the Lord God stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. The plans of the Lord’s heart are good for mankind, good for the nation, good for the person. If a nation or an individual rejects the sovereign plans of the Lord, if they make plans to counter the Lord God’s plans, then the Lord God foils the plans of the nations. He thwarts the purposes of the people. The plans of the Lord cannot be stopped, altered, or subverted. The plans of the Lord God do and will happen for they are for the good of those who follow his good and perfect will. The choice is mine for a better life or for my lesser plan.
