"O Sovereign Lord"

Last night, I read with my kids David's prayer in the second half of 2 Samuel chapter 7. Over and over, David calls God "Sovereign Lord." To be sovereign is to have absolute authority. No one has authority over someone who is sovereign. If God is the Sovereign Lord, then no one in the universe can make Him do what He doesn't want to do, or keep Him from doing what He wants to do. When we think about what God is like, is His sovereignty one of the first things we think of? Perhaps it should be.