Our Father knows every sin we've ever committed and every sin we have yet to commit. And yet he doesn't conclude that we are what we are. He is employing every resource in the universe to help us grow to be like Jesus (Romans 8:29).

"Linearity" is cause and effect--do A so B will result. Applied to writing this essay, its logic is obvious. Applied to God, its effect can be disastrous.

Your Maker...thinks about you more often than the number of grains of sand in the world (Psalm 139:17-18). (One mathematician calculates that number as 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.) He's thinking about you this very moment.

The good news is that we don't have to be smart or rich to be significant. In fact, there is little historical connection between education or wealth and value to humanity...In the eyes of the authorities, Jesus of Nazareth was nothing more than an itinerant Galilean carpenter and peasant.

Genesis 39:1-6

Matthew 7:15-20