When did we become God? When did we come into the arrogance that causes us to believe that we can speak to the morning or the day and cause it to be what we say it should be? One of the things that our generation does best is to minimize the sovereignty of God. We have […]
When did we become God?
When did we come into the arrogance that causes us to believe that we can speak to the morning or the day and cause it to be what we say it should be?
One of the things that our generation does best is to minimize the sovereignty of God. We have suddenly come into a knowledge of all of this power, but it is a power not guided by the bounds of humility. It is a power that exalts itself above the sovereignty of God.
Where is our humility?
Where is our submission to the will and desires of God?
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luke 10:19 (KJV)
If there is one thing that I’ve gathered it is that the power that God has given unto us as human beings through his son Jesus Christ is not for the sake of dictating or commanding the matters and elements that He has expressly stated are within His control and His control alone. Power has been given unto us to trample the works of the enemy and to destroy the kingdom of darkness. We have not been given a power that is in the same measurement as the power of God. From that, we know that we do not even own an iota of the power necessary to command our morning or our dog’s morning for that matter.
But Chadia, This is in the Bible
Where?
You mean Job 38?
Let us look at this portion of Scripture that men have so shamelessly convoluted.
Then the Lord answered Job from the whirlwind:
2 “Who is this that questions my wisdom
with such ignorant words?
3 Brace yourself like a man,
because I have some questions for you,
and you must answer them.
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell me, if you know so much.
5 Who determined its dimensions
and stretched out the surveying line?
6 What supports its foundations,
and who laid its cornerstone
7 as the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?
8 “Who kept the sea inside its boundaries
as it burst from the womb,
9 and as I clothed it with clouds
and wrapped it in thick darkness?
10 For I locked it behind barred gates,
limiting its shores.
11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come.
Here your proud waves must stop!’
12 “Have you ever commanded the morning to appear
and caused the dawn to rise in the east?
13 Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth,
to bring an end to the night’s wickedness?
Job 38 captures a conversation between God and Job. God is in shock that a measly human being would question Him about what He has and hasn’t allowed. Job, in his calamity, began to adopt a posture of arrogance and irreverence to God. It is somewhat understandable. The man had lost everything, he was riddled with sickness and he just couldn’t seem to find an answer for the question of why he was experiencing the things that he was experiencing. But even then God found it necessary to come down and to humble him by asking him a series of questions that would force him to once again recognize the power and sovereignty that ONLY He, GOD, possessed.
The only answers that Job could have given to the questions found in Job Chapter 38 are, “You, God. No one, but You God.”
When God asked Job whether he had commanded the morning it wasn’t a prescription to the troubles that Job was facing. He wasn’t by any means saying to Job, “Have you commanded the morning? If you had, you wouldn’t experience what you just experienced here. If you had commanded the morning your day would have gone exactly as you told it to.”
God was saying, “Job, I am God. You have not done anything that I have done (including commanding the morning) nor can you do anything that I have done. I am God alone. I am in a class all by myself. Know that. Understand that. Know that I have control of every single thing in this universe.”
Girl, I don’t know what you’re going on about but you’re tripping. I’ve tried this and it works for me.
Yes. It works for you. But you are paying attention to the results and not how the results have been attained. This is not about what works. This is about whether what works for you is in accordance with the will and Word of God. This is not simply a matter of accomplishing a desired goal. It is also a matter of how you accomplish this goal.
Take for example two men who have set out to become millionaires. In the end, they both accomplished their goals. One peddled drugs on the corner, the other started off as a janitor and built his own cleaning company up from scratch. They both achieved the same result but do we not care about how the result was achieved?
Umm… this whole sovereignty thing. Where does free will come in? Will God not do anything that I desire?
“A sovereign God could be a dictator (God is not). Or a sovereign could abdicate the use of his powers (God has not). Ultimately God is in control of all things, though He may choose to let certain events happen according to natural laws which He has ordained.”
Charles Ryrie
The understanding of the sovereignty of God is a point that should bring us to reverence. It is not a point that seeks to force us to believe that our will or our desires have absolutely no standing. When we desire something from God, we go to Him in humility. When we desire to see God move in our favor and in alignment with our desires we go to Him in humility.
It is not God that we go to in power. We go to the Kingdom of darkness in power. We command, we dictate and we will it to come into alignment with what we desire to see: its destruction. We speak to demons and they should obey us. We speak to sickness and we are right to expect it to submit to the power that God has given to us. This is the realm where we are meant to exercise our power in Jesus Christ. We should NEVER be so arrogant as to extend into the matters that God has not given under our control.
One more thing. Didn’t Joshua Command the sun to stand still?
“12 On the day the Lord gave the Israelites victory over the Amorites, Joshua prayed to theLord in front of all the people of Israel. He said,
“Let the sun stand still over Gibeon,
and the moon over the valley of Aijalon.”
13 So the sun stood still and the moon stayed in place until the nation of Israel had defeated its enemies.”
Is this event not recorded in The Book of Jashar[b]? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and it did not set as on a normal day.[c] 14 There has never been a day like this one before or since, when the Lord answered such a prayer. Surely the Lord fought for Israel that day!” – Joshua 10:12-14 (NLT)
No matter what version you read it in, you come to an understanding that it was really God who made the sun stand still. No matter what version you read it in, it is clear that before the sun stood still at Joshua’s request that he prayed to God. This command came ONLY after Joshua’s request. The sun is in God’s jurisdiction. ONLY God had the power to command it to do anything and God did just that at Joshua’s request. I love how the King James Version puts verse 14. It says, “and there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the Lord fought for Israel.”
Even then we see a pattern about the power given unto us as human beings and the use of that power. We see that this display of power that Joshua prayed for (humility), was delivered for the defeat of the enemy.
So… Command Your Morning?
The Theology behind “Command Your Morning” is dangerous. It cripples Christians. It forces us to ignore the power of the SOVEREIGN God that we serve. It makes us incapable of dealing with the calamities of life in a way that NEVER diminishes God. It forces us to believe that our POWER is so grand as to do what God has expressly said in his word that only he can do. It forces us into a place of complacency that says that we are the ones in charge of every single aspect of our lives.
From this post I want you to take the following:
1. God is sovereign
2. Power has been given unto us to defeat the enemy and the Kingdom of Darkness; not to design our lives.
3. We are not to approach God in power. He is always to be approached in humility.
4. God is sovereign 😀