Sovereignty

What is sovereignty? Sometimes we use the term too often without stopping to think what it actually means. It refers to (quoting Ernest F. Row's How States Are Governed), supremacy. Such that the Sovereign is defined as "whatever authority is absolutely supreme in the State, so that from it there can be no appeal to any higher authority and no power anywhere to override its decisions."

So, God being our Sovereign, he cannot be questioned. He is above all things. Sometimes we think we can try and wriggle out of things but we cannot. But admittedly, it takes time to recognise this sovereignty, especially when circumstances of nature most foul assail us from all directions.

Currently I have problems which threaten personal freedoms and liberties. These basic, fundamental human rights seem to have departed me. I have no choice in the matter whatsoever. I cannot do anything to change anything. I cannot use diplomacy, lobby points, or any other tool of scaled-down foreign policy to get me in a favourable situation which gets me flying next year without other distractions. But perhaps being too good and reliable in UGs in Sec 1 to Sec 4 has proven to be my Achilles' heel, that I appear to be indispensible to the unit. It is not so. I have to go through all that and do nothing else and become a Cadet Subedar (I shall use this term Subedar instead of Lieutenant, its more secure and somehow appropriate. Go check yourself.) on paper, all for award points. It seems a rather unworthy cause, but I have no choice and this is my fate as for now.

Perhaps this is the fated trial for me to surrender all, and depend solely on God, who works for the good of those who love Him.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me!

-Henry F. Lyte