Someone posted this as a comment and I had to share it. It is so, so true.
“There is no attribute of God more comforting to his children than the
doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in
the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained
their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty
will sanctify them all.
"There is nothing for which the
children of God ought more earnestly to contend than the dominion of
their Master over all creation—the kingship of God over all the works of
his own hands—the throne of God, and his right to sit upon that throne.
On the other hand, there is no doctrine more hated by
worldlings, no truth of which they have made such a football, as the
great, stupendous, but yet most certain doctrine of the Sovereignty of
the infinite Jehovah. Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his
throne.
They will allow him to be in his workshop to fashion
worlds and to make stars. They will allow him to be in his almonry to
dispense his alms and bestow his bounties. They will allow him to
sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps of
heaven, or rule the waves of the ever-moving ocean; but
when God ascends his throne, his creatures then gnash their teeth; and
when we proclaim an enthroned God, and his right to do as he wills with
his own, to dispose of his creatures as he thinks well, without
consulting them in the matter, then it is that we are hissed and
execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on his
throne is not the God they love.
They love him anywhere better than they do when he sits with his sceptre in his hand and his crown upon his head.” ---Charles Spurgeon
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