28. What does it profit us to know that God created, and by His providence upholds, all things?

That we may be patient in adversity 1) thankful in prosperity,2) and for what is future have good confidence in our faithful God and Father, that no creature shall separate us from His love, 3) since all creatures are so in His hand, that without His will they cannot so much as move. 4)

1) And not only so, but we glory in tribulation also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience. Rom. 5:3.

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. James 1:3.

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21.

2) When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. Deut. 8:10.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I Thess. 5:18.

3) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . For I am persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. 8:35,38,39.

4) And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord. Job 1:12

Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood ail nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring. Acts 17:25-28.

The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Prov. 21:1.

* I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge. Ps. 71:7.

* Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. 2 Cor. 1:10.

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