The Sovereignty of God

In my devotions this morning I came across II Peter 3:5. At face value this passage is somewhat confusing,

“For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God…”

However, thanks the handy J-Mac commentary I was directed to Genesis 1:6-7 and Genesis 1:9-10,

“And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.
And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.”

“And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.
God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.”

Had that been the end of the story, the simple understanding of the passage in II Peter would simply mean that there was/had been a canopy of water that was above the earth and a mass of water built into the earth – the masses of water that were created from the beginning.
But there is another story in the Bible that really makes this whole picture truly amazing in my mind. That is the story of the flood.
It was in the flood that the body of water inside the earth burst forth and the canopy of water above the earth came crashing down; effectively destroying all of mankind save the eight on the ark and the representation of every kind of animal.
What that means is that from the very beginning, God built into the earth the very means of how he would destroy it the first time. What that also implies is that God knew he would destroy the earth this first time and he knew how he would destroy it. What an awesome display of God’s sovereignty and perfect plan from the very beginning. What an ironic touch was it as well that the very canopy of water that lengthened man’s life would be used as the instrument of man’s destruction.