Something that comes up all the time in Scripture is the very fact that God is the sovereign God. Fifty-six times in the Scriptures, God is called the Almighty God. That is just one phrase. The evidence of His Almightiness, all-powerfulness, and His sovereignty permeates the Word of God. It is never absent. I think of the angels in heaven who are praising the Lord in Revelation 19:6, and they simply say, ”Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.” That is how the angelic beings see the Lord: the Almighty who reigns.
In Ephesians 1:11 it says, “also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will.” We have the sovereignty of God, providence is another term, in which God is working all things in accordance with the counsel of His will. Nothing is outside of His control or beyond His purposes. Nothing happens that God doesn’t design or control. He works all things according to the counsel of His will. That is a wonderful, wonderful thought, isn’t it? Just think for a moment about the opposite of that. What would happen if God could be changeable? What would happen if something could actually thwart the will of God – whether it be people, Satan, or whatever? What would happen if God was not in control, and we had a universe that was out of control and could go any direction at any moment? The sovereignty of God is a wonderful biblical understanding of who God Himself really is.
The Psalmist is talking and thinking about the sovereignty of God and breaks down in many different ways how he looks at the “omnis” of God. The “omnis” meaning the “alls.” We see in Psalm 139:1 the omnipresence, or all present. He is present everywhere. It says, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.” The Psalmist here is admitting understanding that there is nothing that he does that God doesn’t know. There is no way that he can get beyond the understanding of God. He knows all things. He understands all things. He scrutinizes all things. God’s sovereignty goes to the Psalmists’ very thoughts and his mind and God does that throughout the universe . . .
