The Precious Providence of God: His Wisdom Mercy Power and Protection Extends to All

God’s precious providence covers the smallest to the greatest of things – from the hairs on our head to the ant on the ground to the sparrow in the air to the rising of the sun to the setting up of a king to the winning of a war. It covers all. Everything. God states in Isaiah 46:8-11 (NIV): “Remember this, fix it in mind, take it to heart, you rebels. Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose. What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.” We serve an amazingly awesome and powerful God.  

This does not mean His saints will not suffer – as we have been promised tribulations. Yet for the believer we are promised that there is purpose in our pain – there is a plan in all that He allows. He is not unaware of the intensity of the heat either. Remember he was right there with his three boys in the fiery furnace in Daniel’s time. And he is just as surely going to walk with His children now through their fiery trials. Indeed, His power is seen greatest in our weaknesses. He is never nearer to us than in our extremities, Amen? If He did the greater in saving us, will He not also do the lesser in walking with us through our trials and tribulations? His eye is ever on His children for our good though sometimes it is hard to ascertain that. We must reckon that we see but a poor reflection as in a poor mirror, yet He sees face to face. We know in part but He knows fully, even as we are fully known, the Scriptures tells us.   

It does us well to remember that we live in a fallen, broken world of our own choosing. Not one of us is without sin either. We are all born broken. And the wicked cannot stand in God’s presence. Indeed, pure Holiness cannot commune with wickedness – not even the slightest. Think of all the ritual cleansings in the Old Testament. God is serious about holiness. Serious. Yet, even in our own poor choices, God made a way for our relationship to be restored with Him by sending His Son to live a perfect life and to be our perfect Sacrifice. Paul writes this so beautifully in 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV): “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” The cross epitomized God’s love and the Son’s love for us in that while we were still sinners, Jesus died for us. He had no sin and He took upon Him the sins of the world – past, present and future – in order that we could obtain His righteousness for all who would trust in Him. This righteousness is only obtainable by faith in Jesus. There is no other way.