Originally published as #71, this study has been revised and republished as #169. -ed
“God’s works of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures and all their actions.” So reads the answer to question number 11 in the Westminster Shorter Catechism. What a wonderful truth this is! It is what we find throughout Scripture and throughout history, and even our own lives. How many examples can we recall where we may not have seen it at the time, but now that we are looking back on events we can recognize that God was at work, controlling what was happening and all according to His perfect and complete plan? In retrospect, we can see His fingerprints in what has occurred. That reassures us that whatever may be happing in our lives and in our world at any moment, it is all working out exactly according to plan … according to His plan, Him who “works all things according to the design of His will” (Ephesians 1:11).