God: His Sovereignty

By Andrew Beasley     I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods beside me (Ex. 20:3). In laying out the ten commandments, God begins by declaring His sovereignty over the Hebrew people. Not only does He tell them that He is their God, but He reminds them of why they should view Him as their sovereign Lord. He had brought them out of Egypt and slavery, had set them free and was leading them to the promised land.      Yet we know that God is not just the God of the Hebrew people, but of all humanity. While He did not lead you and I out of Egypt,  He has certainly set us free from the chains and bondage of sin that previously had ruled our lives. In a similar fashion there is a promised land waiting for us today. While it is not a physical plot of land in the way that Canaan was for the Israelites it is prepared for us and waiting for our arrival.      He is Lord of creation and Lord of my life, Lord of the land and the sea. And we bow down and worship Him as our Sovereign God, because He has set us free.

- Andrew Beasley serves as a minister with the Northwest Church of Christ in Greensboro, NC. He may be contacted through the congregation's website: https://nwchurchofchrist.com/about/