One of the deepest lessons Jean-Pierre de Caussade teaches is that the present moment rarely arrives in the form we expected. We make our plans. We set our order. We know what the day should look like. And then God allows something else.

“Ye are not your own… for ye are bought with a price.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 When we come to Jesus, we give up our sovereignty. We lay down the illusion that we belong to ourselves and bow to the truth that we are “not our own… for we were bought with a price.” That price was paid at Calvary, and the One who bought us has every right to rule us in love.