Blessed Lord's day brethren! Today is the sixth Sunday after Pentecost.
Every Lord's day I post part of a reformation confession or catechism. This week we have Lords day 10 from the Heidelberg Catechism.
Lord’s Day 10Q. What do you understand by the providence of God?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.
Proverbs 16:33;
Proverbs 22:2;
Jeremiah 5:24;
Jeremiah 23:23,24;
Matthew 10:29;
John 9:3;
Acts 14:15-17;
Acts 17:24-28;
Hebrews 1:3.
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.
Deuteronomy 8:10;
Job 1:12,21;
Job 2:6;
Psalm 55:22;
Proverbs 21:1;
Acts 17:24-28;
Romans 5:3-5;
Romans 8:38,39;
1 Thessalonians 5:18;
James 1:3.
