What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

James warns against the pride of presumption in speaking ofthe simplest plans in life without a due submission to the overarchingsovereignty of God over the day’s agenda. Man’s plans might be interrupted by God’s decision to take the life he gave.

The secret, I said, is knowing that the same sovereignty that could stop the coronavirus, yet doesn’t, is the very sovereignty that sustains the soul in it.

The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.