5th March 2024

5th March 2024


Pray (ACts)


Read (Ecclesiastes 6v10-12)


Message (Scott Woodburn)


I have a friend who believes in providence. Providence describes how our God preserves and governs all of His creatures (including us) and our actions. In other words God hasn’t set the universe in motion and then left it to its own devices. The Lord is involved in every second of every day and there is not a branch that falls from a tree in a storm that God doesn’t know about. Back to my friend who believes in providence. I have lost count of how many times he has reminded me about God’s decree and that everything is by the providential hand of God.


I’m glad about my friend’s constant reminders. This world is not random but everything is working towards the return of Christ and all of it has been decreed by God. This is what Solomon alluded to in chapter six verse ten. Whatever has come to pass was named by God in the beginning (v10). The world doesn’t operate according to the agenda of humanity, instead the Lord has declared the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46v10). He knows what man is (v10b) or in other words the Lord “knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.” (Psalm 103v14).


It’s therefore inconceivable that anyone would seek to argue with Almighty God (v10c). He knows everything whilst we know only a tiny percentage and so using many words against the Lord (v11) is vanity and of no advantage.


Providence would be a horrendous thought if we believed in a malicious and hate filled God. Thankfully, God is good and whilst His ways are not our ways, He will never let His children fall. Who knows what is good for us while we live for such a short space of time (v12a)? Who knows what the future holds when we are dead and gone (v12b)? God knows and He can be trusted to do what is right (Genesis 18v25) when we walk this earth and when our place is remembered no more.


Pray (acTS)


Sing


WSC


Q85 What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath and curse, due to us for sin? To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith in Jesus Christ, repentance unto life, with the diligent use of all the outward means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption.
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