Nothing touches or changes the sovereign will of God. We have already noted in a previous section, that God often allows things in His permissive will that are not according to His directive will. But remember, nothing alters His sovereign will. Nothing ever frustrates His purposes: no failure in man or work of the enemy.
God always brings His purposes to fruition for His glory and according to His plan. And so the earth would be “filled with the glory of the Lord,” because it did not depend on His people or their faithfulness, but upon Himself. “Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt Thou restrain” (Psalm 76:1010Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. (Psalm 76:10)). “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth” (2 Corinthians 13:88For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. (2 Corinthians 13:8)). “If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself” (2 Timothy 2:1313If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:13)). These Scriptures are a real comfort, especially in times of failure. Not that they excuse failure and sin, but because, as has already been affirmed, we realize that our God is greater than our failure, and “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:1111In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: (Ephesians 1:11)). And all this in spite of us!
We can be thankful that ultimately blessing doesn’t depend on us, or anything man can do. No, it depends on Him, solely on Him, His unchanging word, and His faithfulness!