The Scriptures say, “My soul shall make her boast in the Lord, the humble shall hear of it and be glad.” This proud world isn’t glad to hear anyone boasting about God, or giving Him praise. He sends rain on drought-stricken California and no one in the media gives Him a drop of thanks. Someone almost gets eaten by a shark, and few truly thank God that he is alive.

Watch now and all the proud God-haters (those who don’t believe He exists) jump in and blame Him for tragedies. They do this because they don’t understand that there are at least two wills of God. There is His perfect will and there is His permissive will. In His permissive will, He allows people to be struck by lightning, eaten by sharks, to fall off cliffs, to get cancer, and He permits people to die at a rate of 54 million every year. But no death, no tragedy and no blessing happens outside of His permissive will—“For from Him, and through Him and to Him are all things.” Not a single ray of sun finds its way 93 million miles from its surface to the earth, without God allowing it to find its mark.

He has permitted you to hear this. May you humble yourself and bow to His perfect will by obeying the gospel. It is not His will that any perish, but that all come to repentance.