11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head above all.

12 Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand are power and might, and in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.

— 1 Chronicles 29:11-12

For God is King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise.

— Psalm 47:7

28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.

29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

— Romans 8:28-29

8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.

9 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

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace, mercy and salvation from Christ to you.

When we say God is sovereign, we recognize His control over His universe and all outcomes to accomplish His wise purposes. God promised to bring the Messiah through His people, the Israelites. By God’s design, a Jewish orphan girl Esther and her cousin Mordecai rose to influential positions in the Persian Empire and preserved the Jewish people. Esther’s story highlights God’s sovereign control of human events. Throughout history, God has prevailed over Satan’s plots to undermine His covenant people and plan. Nothing operates outside the scope of God’s control and guidance.

God’s sovereignty harmonizes all His unlimited attributes, such as His power, wisdom, authority, and goodness. He controls and guides all events for His glory and our good. God does not exercise His sovereignty arbitrarily but works in ways we cannot fully understand to accomplish His perfect will. Though our limited human insight cannot fully comprehend how God works in individual lives and human history, we should sing a psalm of praise to Him that He exercises His sovereignty and carries out His will.