LORD’S DAY 10
27. What do you understand by the providence of God?
The almighty and everywhere present power of God,1Acts 17:25-26 whereby, as it were by His hand, He upholds heaven and earth with all creatures,2Hebrews 1:3 and so governs them that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink,3Jeremiah 5:24; Acts 14:17 health and sickness,4John 9:3 riches and poverty,5Proverbs 22:2; Psalm 103:19; Romans 5:3-5 indeed, all things come not by chance, but by His Fatherly hand.
28. What does it profit us to know that God created, and by His providence upholds all things?
That we may be patient in adversity,6Romans 5:3; James 1:3; Job 1:21 thankful in prosperity,7Deuteronomy 8:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:18 and for what is future have good confidence in our faithful God and Father, that no creature shall separate us from His love,8Romans 8:35, 38-39 since all creatures are so in His hand, that without His will they cannot so much as move.9Job 1:12; Acts 17:25-28; Proverbs 21:1; Psalm 71:7; 2 Corinthians 1:10