You are eternally loved by God; you are eternally his son or daughter; what he wants for you is always right and best; and what he has planned for you is immeasurably better than anything you could have dreamed for yourself.

if you're God's child, your life is never, ever out of control.

Since God is the Author of every detail of your story, since he writes into your story every situation, location, and relationship, then he knows exactly what you're facing and precisely what grace you need to face it in the way he has planned.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

Your rest is not to be found in figuring your life out, but in trusting the One who has it all figured out for your good and his glory.

You have no reason for fear when you answer God's call; you have every reason to be afraid when you put your life in your own hands.

what is the big thing that you are living for right now?

Peace is found in trusting the person who controls all the things that you don't understand and who knows no mystery because he has planned it all.

We were created to be part of something so big, so glorious, so far beyond the ordinary that it would totally change the way we approach every ordinary thing in our lives.

He covers your past with his grace; he protects, provides for, and empowers you in the present; and he holds every aspect of your future in his sovereign and gracious hands.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.