What Does It Mean That God Is Sovereign?

by R.C. Sproul

If you can wiggle your finger, then God is sovereign. It’s that simple, because without sovereign being, there is no being. Without sovereign being, there is no life. And without sovereign being, nothing can move. Simple and profound.

It ignores the biblical revelation that though we have the power of choosing, our choices are in bondage to sin. Only the power of God the Holy Spirit can rescue us from that bondage, that spiritual death, and that paralysis.

And if God isn’t sovereign, then God is not God.”

Every time we discount the scope of the sovereignty of God over all things, we rob Him of His glory.