Has God Predetermined Every Tiny Detail In the Universe, Including Sin?

Has God predetermined every tiny detail in the universe, such as dust particles in the air and all of our besetting sins?  How should we answer this?  Easy, with a resounding, YES!

There's a great quote from Charles Spurgeon about dust motes. What is a dust mote? Have you ever seen a beam of light coming through a window and in that beam are dust particles floating in the air? Those are dust motes.

Spurgeon says that every one of those particles is keeping its position and moving through the air by God's appointment.

Now the reason I believe this is because the Bible says, "The dice are thrown in the lap, and every decision is from the Lord" (Proverbs 16:33).

Why would he choose "the dice is cast into the lap"? It's because he's trying to think of the most random thing he could think of. And he says that. So randomness may look like randomness to us, but not to God.

God is not the least taxed by keeping every sub-nuclear particle in its place. Everything in the middle of the molecule moving, and the electrons—he's got them all in orbit, just like he has the planets in orbit.  So the macro-world and micro-world are all managed by God. Which means, every horrible thing and every sinful thing is ultimately governed by a sovereign God.

Now this appears to be a problem, but the center of the solution is a choice you have to make about the cross. When you think about such thing, it is good to keep yourself centered.  When you go to Acts 4:27-28 and you read that Herod and Pontius Pilate and the Gentiles and the Jews were all gathered together to do what God's hand and God's plan had predestined to take place in the killing of Jesus, you have God's plan and hand predestining the most horrible sins ever committed.

Pilate's choices, the soldiers' cruel mockery, the piercing of his side, the cries, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"—these few hours in history were the climax of the worst wickedness that has ever been performed on the planet or ever will be. And God planned it so that we might be saved from those sins.

In other words, what the devil did in unleashing all of that was commit suicide. Therefore, when you contemplate believing in a sovereign God who governs the dust motes, the waves (including tsunamis)—when you contemplate believing in a totally sovereign God, go to the cross so that you will stay center. Because you'll go crazy otherwise.

These things have driven people mad. But it won't drive you mad if you say, "He loves me. And he governed the most wicked thing that ever happened in the world, the crucifixion of my Savior and my God." If you stay right there and then just work out from there as far as your mind can handle, then you'll be safe. Your mind will be safe and your heart will be safe, because you'll be kept humble.