06 January 2010

Encouragement from the Heidelberg Catechism

Question 27: What dost thou understand by the providence of God?


Answer: The almighty and everywhere present power of God, whereby as it were by His hand, He still upholds heaven and earth, with all creatures, and so governs them, that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, yea, all things, come not by chance, but by His fatherly hand.


Question 28: What does it profit us to know that God has created and by His providence still upholds all things?


Answer: That we may be patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and for what is future have good confidence in our faithful God and Father, that no creature shall separate us from His love, since all creatures are so in His hand that without His will they cannot so much as move.


In Yahweh's Care,

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