Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

First, I desire to glorify God by acknowledging His sovereignty and His goodness. Second, I desire to encourage God's people by demonstrating from Scripture that God is in control of their lives, that He does indeed love them, and that He works out all the circumstances of their lives for their ultimate good.

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He straightened my "crook" and relieved my distress?

He is sovereign over the nations where every attempt is made to stamp out true Christianity. In all of these areas, we can and must trust God.

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

Rather than being offended over the Bible's assertion of God's sovereignty in both good and calamity, believers should be comforted by it.

God owes me no explanation. He has the right to do what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants. Why? Because He's God. . .

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.

No one can harm you or jeopardize your future apart from the sovereign will of God.