Our Bounds Are Set!

“Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;” Job 14:5

Death is something we simply do not understand. We all believe that people will live long on this earth, but that is totally in the hands of the All Sovereign God. God is the one that people just do not understand, and that is because they continually deny His Sovereign Power. Job here is speaking about mankind, and he points out that mankind’s bounds or life limit has been determined or set, and people simply cannot pass that limit. People are always failing to connect God and His Sovereign Power to anything, and that is because people really do not believe in Him. Solomon writing under the name “Preacher” wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” The word “season” means - an appointed occasion – and then the Preacher went on to give a number of things under this “appointed occasion” and in verse 2 he wrote “A time to be born, and a time to die…” and this appointed time is for everything, including mankind. I once heard a Pastor in Tyler, Texas speak about this subject and he said “to prove this predestination stuff wrong just walk in front of a truck, and you will die early”. Now, what this self-glorified genius of a preacher did not know is that theory proves nothing except it was that persons appointed time to die. See, you cannot disprove a Truth of God. If God has ordained it, it will come to pass without question or interruption. Now God said in Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To every thing there is a season…” therefore we must conclude that God has ordained a beginning and end to everything that exist, including mankind. I also hear “Preachers” in their insults about God speak as though God simply cannot control everything, it is way too large. Say what, God is too small to control everything? Then they just called God a liar, because God has declared that He created and controls everything, even evil for His own glory. This I also know, since this is true, we ought to fear God. The Preacher went on to say in Ecclesiastes 3:14 “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.” Nothing can be added to it nor can anything be taken from it. Therefore, to the Preacher I spoke about in Tyler, Texas, stepping in front of the bus, changes nothing. The writer of the Proverbs wrote in Proverbs 19:21 “There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.” No matter what God’s ordained will is, it will without interruption and failure be brought to fulfillment. Now, I said all of this to prove this one point, that our life span is totally determined by God, when we were born and when we will die is at Gods choosing. No matter what it is God controls it, even evil. Satan can do nothing except God grant him the power, and neither can anyone else. Most people in this world does not “get” or “understand” God because they willingly fail to understand His sovereignty and His powers. People want to believe that somehow they are superior to God, but that is a total false idea. We must always understand that everything lives, moves, and has its being by the power of God.