Nothing can happen in His universe without His permission.

I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand. – Deuteronomy 32:39

On August 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in a copper and gold mine just outside of a small town called Copiapó. A cave-in confined the men with no way out. They were imprisoned in a fortress of rock. For more than two weeks, rescuers heard nothing from the trapped miners. The men couldn’t even help each other out of this pit. They were helpless and desperate, hungry, and cold. But the miners gathered and called on the God Most High to rescue them.

Finally, after 17 days, rescuers found a note taped to one of their drill bits. The miners were alive! The rescuers drilled a larger hole down through the earth, inserted a small tube, and provided the miners with food, water, medicine, and communication equipment. After 69 days, all the miners were finally freed when a two-foot-wide capsule lifted them out one at a time.

El Elyon is the name that designates God as the sovereign ruler of the universe. It was El Elyon, “God Most High, who has delivered” Abraham’s enemies into his hand. It was God Most High who was and is the Redeemer of Israel. It is God Most High who rules today over the issues of this nation. And when your circumstances seem to have caved in on you and you see no escape, it is God Most High who will rescue you out of a seemingly hopeless situation.

Thank your Heavenly Father that nothing can happen in His universe without His permission. Allow that truth to strengthen your faith as you spend time with Him.