God In Control

            “GOD IS IN CONTROL.”   This is a personal viewpoint that came to my mind after reflecting on the following words of the ANAWIM WAY with reference to what happened to Paul in the custody of the Roman procurator Festus.(Acts 25:13-21)

            “Without Festus knowing it, God is using him, and the whole Roman system of government, for the sake of spreading the gospel.  This is an example of what the Church calls ‘unconscious collaborators with God’s will’ (CCC 307).  We are reminded once again that God is indeed in charge of the world and the unfolding of history.  Though men are free, and often act without concern for the will of God – and can even act against God through sin – nothing happens that is completely outside of God’s providence.  He can make use of secular authorities and unbelievers.  He can use what strikes us as quite contradictory, even evil, for the sake of spreading the gospel of salvation.  We cannot expect the secular world to understand the ways of God, or to understand us who strive to serve God.  But we at least must trust that God is in charge of all things.”

            Pondering on the foregoing words, I asked myself the following questions:

1.    How did this world begin and how will it end?

2.    How is this world being maintained in its existence?

3.    Who is the Grand Architect who conceived this world and keeps it going?

On the first question, there is no one yet who can tell with certainty

 how this world began and how it will end.

            On the second question, history is filled with the lives of human beings, great and small, who in one way or another had a significant existence in this world, but all of them have passed away, except one who claimed to be the Son of the Living God, JESUS CHRIST.  Hence, no one can exist by his own power and nothing in this world can last forever by its power.  There must be SOMEONE  who has the power to create and keep this world in its existence.

            On the third question,  all men of all ages, even the so-called ‘atheists’,  could not but look up to some SUPREME BEING, who must be the MASTER MIND of everything that exists in this world.  It is this same SUPREME BEING who keeps this world going.

            With all these reflections I am convinced that GOD IS IN CONTROL OF THIS WORLD.   Hence,  I have to acknowledge my complete dependence on God and strive to live every day according to HIS HOLY WILL.

by: Buddy Cagurangan 

May 19, 2013