A. Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God by which He upholds, as with His hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty - all things, in fact, come to us not by chance but from His fatherly hand.
28.Q. How does the knowledge of God's creation and providence help us?
A. We can be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that nothing will separate us from His love. All creatures are so completely in His hand that without His will they can neither move nor be moved.
"You can look at providence through the lens of human autonomy and our idolatrous notions of freedom and see a mean God moving tsunamis and kings like chess pieces in some kind of perverse divine playtime. Or you can look at providence through the lens of Scripture and see a loving God counting the hairs on our heads and directing the sparrows in the sky so that we might live life unafraid.
"The fact is all your worries may come true, but God will never be untrue to you. He will always lead you and listen to you. God moves in mysterious ways, so we may not always understand why life is what it is. But it helps us to face the future unafraid to know that nothing moves, however mysterious, except by the hand of that great Unmoved Mover, who is our Father in heaven.
The Good News We Almost Forgot, Kevin DeYoung, Moody Publishers, 2010, pg. 61.
What timely encouragement. Thank you!
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