God's Will

Can anything thwart the will of God? Is there any created being that can successfully oppose the king of the universe? Can anything, anything at all prevent the will of God, or is God supremely sovereign over all of creation?

I remember singing as a little boy about the sovereignty of God it went like this...
My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do.
My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do.
The mountains are His the rivers are His the stars are His handiwork too.
My God is so big, so strong, and so mighty there's nothing my God cannot do.

There is nothing in all of creation that can thwart the will of God especially not the will of man.
Job 42:1-2
Then Job answered the LORD and said: "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted."

Proverbs 19:21
"Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand."

God I give you praise that you would choose me. There is nothing in me that warrants saving, but for your name sake you chose me, called me, and are sanctifying me. Praise be to God who sits upon His throne. May I never boast except in the cross of Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

The Husband Planned the Wedding

Many hours go into the planning of a wedding. Everything from colors to cakes, dresses to decor, gown to grooms men, recital to reception, brides maids to beautiful music. Endless decisions about preferences: rice, bird seed, or bubbles; inside or outside; large wedding or small; real flowers or fake; bi-fold or tri-fold program; sleeves or no sleeves for the bride's maids; black, white, gray, blue, or burgundy tuxedos (ok I have never really seen a blue or burgundy tux except in my parents 1960's wedding pic). As I pondered weddings I wondered why it fell on the bride to make all of these decisions. Now I understand that every bride wants the fiance's opinion, and by opinion she means she genuinely wants the fiance to agree with what she wants. Nevertheless the bride makes the final decision, because ultimately it is her day.

But what if it were different. What if the groom was the wedding planner. What if it were up to him to choose all of the things that would be a part of the wedding day? Would the ceremony be in blue jeans and t-shirts and just the essentials- no music, no prolonging everything- just get to the "I do's" or would the wedding be the first of thousands of loving choices made by the husband to love his wife by considering her preferences above his own. Would he choose her favorite flowers for her to carry? Would he pick the color that not only matched the season, but desire of the bride? Would he labor over the details of the invitation that would please his wife? Would he plan the music and pick the dress that made her feel beautiful?

Would he love himself by loving his wife?
Ephesians 5:28
"In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself."

What if the wife planned the honeymoon and the husband planned the wedding?