How Does God Express His Sovereignty?

People have many various and different ideas about God, particularly about who or what He is and how he behaves. There are ideas about God that range from a control freak to a distant spirit that doesn't relate to anything; from a model for human despotic dictatorship, to a loving "teddy bear." As far as I have been able to determine, no one has met with God face-to-face and lived to tell about what kind of personality and character God has. If they did meet with him face-to-face they proba...