Clarity on the pecking order

I've been gone on holiday for the past two weeks. During that time I finished reading the major prophets of the Old Testament ending with Daniel. Then I began reading the five books of Moses or the pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)

One clear theme coming through loud and clear is the determinative rule of God.

Daniel 2:21 ESV

He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;

So how will you respond to this news?

Will you feel safe because you trust God? Will you view his awesome creative power, his control of world affairs, and his promise of protection as comfort?

Those who feel upset with God's leadership possibly don't trust God. Maybe you don't think God knows what he's doing.

But God looks at his creative work and assesses it as good.

Genesis 1:31 ESV

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

But we should not assume that although God is in control and that he deems his creation as good means the world can not go bad. But should you assume that the world going bad means God has lost control.

In Daniel's account of the three young men thrown into the furnace they're answer shows a trust in God regardless of the circumstances of apparent outcome.

Daniel 3:16-18 ESV

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.  But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up."

  Things can look extremely bad. Even God can be throughly disgusted with the situation in this world, so much so that he is moved to intervene to set things right.
Genesis 6:5-8 ESV

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them." But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord .

But as can be seen, firstly, God is not without options or power. And even though it looks as bleak a can be God preserves his plan through Noah.

It is never or of God's control.
God is always working his plan out.
Even when it looks like everyone is gone wrong God is preserving people.

Can you let this truth change the way you think?