If your a Gen-Xer or older, you may remember that old UPA cartoon "Mr. Magoo" — an elderly, near-sighted (almost blind) man that looks a bit like he's been scrapping or something — because you never see his eyes behind those puffy, closed eyelids.
Anyway, when I think of God's sovereignty, I often think about that opening sequence at the beginning of each cartoon (from SO many years ago!), where Mr. Magoo is walking through some huge construction project. Massive i-beams are swinging dangerously everywhere, but he's total unaware of them or the dangers they pose. He about steps into a pit and an i-beam happens to meet his feet at the right moment — taking him on to another destination. Indeed, wherever he steps, these i-beams seem to come to his rescue, and he never gets hurt, but goes on his merry way. No one operating the cranes and moving the beams are even aware of this little speck of a man. They are about their own business of building something. But strangely, like a symphony, these unrelated people and objects in motion, with very different agendas, work together. It's as if some unseen divine hand is orchestrating it all.
And that is a picture of how God works sovereignly in our lives. God can use any and everything in His created order to work out His divine plan.
