## Lord’s Day 10
### 27. Q. What do you understand by the providence of God?

**A**. Providence is the almighty and ever present power of God<sup>1</sup> by which God upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures,<sup>2</sup> and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty<sup>3</sup>—all things, in fact, come to us not by chance<sup>4</sup> but by his fatherly hand.<sup>5</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Jer. 23:23–24](/References/Bible/24%20-%20Jeremiah/Jeremiah23.md#23); [Acts 17:24–28](/References/Bible/44%20-%20Acts/Acts17.md#24)
<sup>2</sup> [Heb. 1:3](/References/Bible/58%20-%20Hebrews/Hebrews1.md#3)
<sup>3</sup> [Jer. 5:24](/References/Bible/24%20-%20Jeremiah/Jeremiah5.md#24); [Acts 14:15–17](/References/Bible/44%20-%20Acts/Acts14.md#15); [John 9:3](/References/Bible/43%20-%20John/John9.md#3); [Prov. 22:2](/References/Bible/20%20-%20Proverbs/Proverbs22.md#2)
<sup>4</sup> [Prov. 16:33](/References/Bible/20%20-%20Proverbs/Proverbs16.md#33)
<sup>5</sup> [Matt. 10:29](/References/Bible/40%20-%20Matthew/Matthew10.md#29)

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### 28. Q. How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?

**A**. We can be patient in adversity,<sup>1</sup> thankful in prosperity,<sup>2</sup> and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that no creature will separate us from his love.<sup>3</sup> For all creatures are so completely in his hand that without his will they can neither move nor be moved.<sup>4</sup>

<sup>1</sup> [Job 1:21–22](/References/Bible/18%20-%20Job/Job1.md#21); [James 1:3](/References/Bible/59%20-%20James/James1.md#3)
<sup>2</sup> [Deut. 8:10](/References/Bible/05%20-%20Deuteronomy/Deuteronomy8.md#10); [1 Thess. 5:18](/References/Bible/52%20-%201Thessalonians/1Thessalonians5.md#18)
<sup>3</sup> [Ps. 55:22](/References/Bible/19%20-%20Psalms/Psalms55.md#22); [Rom. 5:3–5](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans5.md#3); [8:38–39](/References/Bible/45%20-%20Romans/Romans8.md#38)
<sup>4</sup> [Job 1:12](/References/Bible/18%20-%20Job/Job1.md#12); [2:6](/References/Bible/18%20-%20Job/Job2.md#6); [Prov. 21:1](/References/Bible/20%20-%20Proverbs/Proverbs21.md); [Acts 17:24–28](/References/Bible/44%20-%20Acts/Acts17.md#24)