Sunday, March 6, 2011

John Murray writing on John Calvin's view of Providence...

"For the believer the presence of God appears no less in the perpetual government of the world than in its origin . . . . But all events whatsoever are governed by the secret counsel and directed by the present hand of God.

Not a drop of rain falls and no wind ever blows but at the special command of God. Every year, month, an day is governed by a new and special providence of God. Chance and fortune do not belong to a Christian man's vocabulary. Events are often fortuitous to us because their order, reason, end, and necessity are hid in the counsel of God and are not apprehended by the mind of man. But they are not fortuitous for God—they proceed from His will."

Numbers 24:23 who can live except God has ordained it?

Ephesians 1:11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,
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