Protesting Our Purpose
God is sovereign, but is He just? Romans 9 doesn't just tell us that God is just in His sovereignty, but that His sovereignty is good news. Not only is it okay that God is in control of everything, but that is really and truly what we long for and what is best for us. God doesn't merely will in His sovereignty that some be saved and some be condemned, but He wills that His glory and name would be revealed. He wills what is best for us because what is best for us is Himself and the perfect plan of His own revelation in the Word and in Christ. Is God sovereign? Yes. Do we have free choices? Yes. Do we understand perfectly how that works? Maybe not, but we can still rest knowing definitively that God, in His sovereignty, is enacting His plan in and for us for what is best.