Good Monday morning. We've been talking about God's sovereignty recently. Does His sovereignty and salvation make him unfair? That was A.B.J. 28 and then should his all sovereignty make us less prayerful

since we can just resign all things to him, that was APJ 2029, and today we talk about

God's sovereignty over our suffering.

That's because, Pastor John, today in our navigators Bible reading plan,

we read Psalm 71 together.

And listeners who have already completed their reading this morning will have already come

across the verse that

Bridget wants to stop and reflect on more deeply here's her email.

Pestar John hello to you from New Zealand for many years I've thought like many

Christians do that God would stop pain from getting into the lives of his children if he could,

but he can't really stop it all, or he simply allows some of it to pass.

So either because he is helpless or passive, we suffer. So we ask

for his deliverance and he will eventually help us out. But when I read a verse like

Psalm 7120, I am struck that it seems to say that the same God who caused that suffering

is the same God the Psalmist has confidence to pray to for deliverance from that suffering.

Here's the full verse.

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again from the depths of the earth you

will bring me up again.

Can you explain this verse and how important it is for us to see God's sovereignty over our suffering as the ground for our confidence that he is powerful enough to deliver us to?

This seems profoundly important and so counterintuitive to how I and many other Christians naturally speak of suffering.

But I see it there in the Bible.

Thank you.

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