In a world of chaos, with people raging, we do not need to fear for one reason and one reason alone: God is God. Take time to luxuriate in this wonderful psalm. Give it time not just to inform you but more importantly to transform you. You see, being still and remembering that God is God is not about denying the troubling realities of the fallen

I will remember that my world is not out of control (Acts 17:22–34). I love the apostle Paul’s response to the Athenian philosophers, as he defined for them the God they thought they could not know. He talks of God’s control, saying that God determines the exact length of our lives and the exact places where we live (17:26). But then he says

I will live within my God-designed limits (Rom. 12:3). I am not frustrated by my limits because I really do believe that God is present with me, actively delivering to me everything I need in order to be what he has chosen me to be and to do the things he has called me to do and in the way he has chosen me to do them.

I will always speak in a way that gives grace to the hearer (Eph. 4:29). I can always speak words of grace because I believe in a God of grace, whose grace is the most powerful force of personal heart and life transformation in the universe.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. (Isa. 26:3) I get up every morning not striving to justify my words to my accusers but striving to trust in my Lord.

As the conquering Savior King, all things have been placed under his feet. And because of that, he is our help and hope. It is not natural for us to love our enemies. It is not natural for us to speak with words of grace to those who oppose what we know to be true. It’s not natural for me to treat someone with respect whose lifestyle God says is

I have determined to remember that everyone who reads my social media posts is a person made in the image of God.

With this identity comes a calling: we are to treat one another with the dignity that God placed on each one of us as his image bearers. This means I am to treat you with dignity not because of your beauty, your race, your achievements, your money, your power, your position, your family, your education, your location, your possessions, your

It is not enough to say that people reflect God’s glory. We must also be careful to say again and again, to ourselves and to one another, that we are also made in his image, that is, in his likeness. Let this sink in. By means of the intentionality of God’s design, human beings are more like God than they are like the rest of creation.