Never choose to be a worker, but once God has placed His call upon you, woe be to you if you "turn aside . . . to the right or the left . . ." (Deuteronomy 28:14). He will do with you what He never did before His call came to you, and He will do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way.

To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. This is generally expressed with a sigh of sadness, but it should be an expression of breathless expectation.

All our fretting and worrying is caused by planning without God.

Fretting rises from our determination to have our own way. Our Lord never worried and was never anxious, because His purpose was never to accomplish His own plans but to fulfill God's plans. Fretting is wickedness for a child of God.

Do I really dare to let God be to me all that He says He will be?

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

At any cost, by any road" means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal.

Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint. Proverbs 29:18 (rv)

Once you have the right relationship with God through salvation and sanctification, remember that whatever your circumstances may be, you have been placed in them by God. And God uses the reaction of your life to your circumstances to fulfill His purpose, as long as you continue to "walk in the light as He is in the light" (1 John 1:7).

If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

You have no business trying to find out where God is leading—the only thing God will explain to you is Himself.

One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purpose, and yours may be that life.