Sovereignty Behind The Lives Of His Own!

The Word of God makes it clear in more than one place that there is a sovereignty behind the lives of His own, "the called according to His purpose"...

Which may have not just let that thing happen, but actually ordained it...

And made that very thing, ordered by the will of God, the means by which something should come from our lives very much to the glory of God. 

I know that it is not easy to take that attitude toward things when you are in them - it is the most difficult thing...

But here is something which is concrete as a statement, and it says in a general way to us, "to them that love God... that are called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28): 

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

~T. Austin Sparks