God's Plan for the Universe and God's plans for me
Christ the Saviour (Pantokrator), a 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai. NB - slightly cut down - for full size see here (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Before he created our world, God decided what was going happen in it, from the moment of creation on into eternity. The Westminster Confession of Faith , in the section on God's eternal decree puts it like this: God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass . . . . God's eternal decree is his all-encompassing plan for the universe. That God ordainsthings simply means that he planned for them to happen. According to the WCF, God planned from eternity past for everything that will happen to happen. The Westminster Divines got this truth from scripture. God's plan is mentioned in Ephesians 1:11 : In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who