I was reading this this morning and decided to post it. Hopefully it will remind you as it did me that God Has everything under control no matter the circumstances we find ourselves in. We can have good confidence in our God and Father. Have you got read something today or this week that strengthens your confidence in God - please share..
Lord’s Day 10
Q & A 27
Q. What do you understand
by the providence of God?
A. The almighty and ever present power of God 1
by which God upholds, as with his hand,
heaven and earth and all creatures,2
and so rules them that leaf and blade,
rain and drought, fruitful and lean years,
food and drink, health and sickness,
prosperity and poverty—3
all things, in fact,
come to us not by chance4
but by his fatherly hand.5
1 Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 17:24-28
2 Heb. 1:3
3 Jer. 5:24; Acts 14:15-17/a>; John 9:3; Prov. 22:2
4 Prov. 16:33
5 Matt. 10:29
Q & A 28
Q. How does the knowledge
of God’s creation and providence help us?
A. We can be patient when things go against us,1
thankful when things go well,2
and for the future we can have
good confidence in our faithful God and Father
that nothing in creation will separate us from his love.3
For all creatures are so completely in God’s hand
that without his will
they can neither move nor be moved.4
1 Job 1:21-22; James 1:3
2 Deut. 8:10; 1 Thess. 5:18
3 Ps. 55:22; Rom. 5:3-5; 8:38-39
4 Job 1:12; 2:6; Prov. 21:1; Acts 17:24-28
(Taken from the Heidelberg catechism 1563)
Lord’s Day 10
Q & A 27
Q. What do you understand
by the providence of God?
A. The almighty and ever present power of God 1
by which God upholds, as with his hand,
heaven and earth and all creatures,2
and so rules them that leaf and blade,
rain and drought, fruitful and lean years,
food and drink, health and sickness,
prosperity and poverty—3
all things, in fact,
come to us not by chance4
but by his fatherly hand.5
1 Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 17:24-28
2 Heb. 1:3
3 Jer. 5:24; Acts 14:15-17/a>; John 9:3; Prov. 22:2
4 Prov. 16:33
5 Matt. 10:29
Q & A 28
Q. How does the knowledge
of God’s creation and providence help us?
A. We can be patient when things go against us,1
thankful when things go well,2
and for the future we can have
good confidence in our faithful God and Father
that nothing in creation will separate us from his love.3
For all creatures are so completely in God’s hand
that without his will
they can neither move nor be moved.4
1 Job 1:21-22; James 1:3
2 Deut. 8:10; 1 Thess. 5:18
3 Ps. 55:22; Rom. 5:3-5; 8:38-39
4 Job 1:12; 2:6; Prov. 21:1; Acts 17:24-28
(Taken from the Heidelberg catechism 1563)
