His Father’s Hand¹

“‘O LORD, how manifold are thy works!  in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.  [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.  These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.  [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.’"  (Ps 104:24,25,27-29)

“The providence of God is His care of and provision which He makes for His creatures; with His supervision and superintendence of them.  The providence of god in His government of the world is a subject of deep importance to the Christian, for by proper views thereof, he will learn to see God’s activities — in the daily works of His hands.  Yet, though Christians assent to this truth, they are prone to overlook it in exercise, and thereby to be deprived in great measure of that poise of mind and comfort of heart, which a deep and constant improvement of this doctrine is calculated to impart.

“Nothing is more strengthening to faith, stabilizing to the mind. and tranquilizing to the heart of a Christian — than for him to be enabled to discern his Father’s hand guiding, shaping, and controlling everything which enters his life; and not only so, but that He is also governing this world, and all people and events in it.  Alas, we are living in an age of terrible skepticism, when most of what happens is attributed to natural causes, while God is more and more banished from the world, in the consideration of His creatures.  It is not only a fact that God governs the world in a general sense, but He also regulates all its affairs, and controls all creatures in it, “... working all things after the counsel of His own will.” (Eph 1:11)

“God is not troubled by anything that is now taking place in this world — either in its political, social, or religious sphere; nor should we be troubled.  The helm is still in His hand; and satan himself cannot so much as touch a hair of our heads, without His direct permission.

“‘We ought to see the hand of God in the most trifling things.  Nothing is so small as to be below His attention!  Nothing is too great for His providence to effect’ — Carson.”

1. “Divine Providence” by Arthur Pink

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