“We must all come to the place in our lives where we realize that we are dealing with One who is outside of our control. His will is not subject to ours. God sovereignly elects. He cannot be changed. He cannot be challenged. He cannot be manipulated. He cannot be controlled. This is a frightening thing. I am completely subject to the sovereign mercy of this God. I cannot argue with Him. I cannot bargain with Him. I cannot even understand Him. He transcends my logic. He exceeds all the categories of my experience and even my imagination. His ways are ‘unfathomable’. I may be one of the great ones of the earth. I may have great power and authority in this world. When I bark orders, people may fall all over themselves trying to obey. I may always get what I want. I may always get my way. But with God this pattern comes to a screeching halt. He is in absolute control and I am helplessly at His mercy.

Do you know this God? I am not asking if you know Him intellectually or in theory. I am asking if you have looked into the face of the One who is Absolute Will and Absolute Power and felt your knees buckle? Nothing will cause you to bow in worship like the conviction that God is sovereign.”

-Terry L. Johnson, When Grace Comes Home, p. 24 (see link on menu to the left)