Keepers of the Covenant (The Restoration Chronicles #2)

by Lynn Austin

“Why do the Gentiles hate us, Rebbe?” “Because we follow God,” he said, his hands muffling his reply. “Men who worship false gods want to wipe out all remembrance of the one true God and His moral laws, and so they attack us, the keepers of His Torah.”

“We show our faith in God when we keep moving forward even when our prayers aren’t being answered. It’s the highest form of praise to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn’t seem that way.”

She and Amina both knew that marriage meant becoming a slave to your new mother-in-law and obeying your husband’s every whim or risking a beating.

“It’s easy to have faith when we get everything we want from God, everything we pray for. But when we don’t, we have to decide if we want His will or our own. We can’t manipulate God by a display of faith or by our actions. Only idols can be manipulated. God is sovereign, and He will do what He wills, for His purposes. And those purposes are often hidden from us.”

will we allow grief and disappointment to erect a barricade between us and God? Or will we allow God to be the barricade, the shelter, between us and our sorrow?”

We need to obey every word of God—not just because we want His blessings or we fear His judgment, but because His instructions are the very best way to live in this precarious, turbulent world.