Do Not Worry, It’s Providence
Lately, during my studies, I’ve been thinking more and more about providence and my response to the situations in life. It takes awhile before I come to realize that it is by divine providence that such and such has happened. My prayer is to have that response immediately and not have that “woe is me” kind of attitude. I should have joy in the fact that the God who cast me into a certain situation is the same God who can get me out. Let the words below from John Calvin comfort you, as they have comfort me.
“But when once the light of Divine Providence has illumined the believer’s soul, he is relieved and set free, not only from the extreme fear and anxiety which formerly oppressed him, but from all care. For as he justly shudders at the idea of chance, so he can confidently commit himself to God. This, I say, is his comfort, that his heavenly Father so embraces all things under his power—so governs them at will by his nod—so regulates them by his wisdom, that nothing takes place save according to his appointment; that received into his favour, and entrusted to the care of his angels neither fire, nor water, nor sword, can do him harm, except in so far as God their master is pleased to permit.”
– Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion I
