In this post:

1. Ordained by the Lord
2. No such thing as chance
3. Every atom of matter in the universe
4. The counsel of the Most High
5. God’s providential care
6. Incidents of common life
7. Preserved from danger
8. The smallest trifles
9. The minutest details
10. Under His control
11. The best remedy for affliction
12. Beware of doubting
13. A salve for the sharpest pain

Ordained by the Lord

Blessed is that man who is done with chance, who never speaks of luck–but believes that from the least, even to the greatest, all things are ordained by the Lord. We dare not leave out the least event! The creeping of an aphid upon a rosebud is as surely arranged by the decree of Providence–as the march of a pestilence through a nation! Believe this, for if the least thing is omitted from the supreme government, so may the next be, and the next–until nothing is left in the divine hands. There is no place for chance, since God fills all things.

Charles Spurgeon

No such thing as chance

There is no such thing as chance, luck or accident in the Christian journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God. And all things are working together for the believer’s good!

J.C. Ryle

Every atom of matter in the universe

“God’s Providence not only extends to mankind in general, and to the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the innumerable fish in the sea–but also to every atom of matter in the universe!”

Charles Spurgeon

The counsel of the Most High

All things are ordained of God and are settled by Him, according to His wise and holy predestination. Whatever happens here on earth–happens not by chance, but according to the counsel of the Most High!

Charles Spurgeon

God’s providential care

God who feeds the sparrows–will not starve His saints! God controls all the concerns of His people, even of those that are most minute, and least regarded. This is an encouragement to live in a continual dependence upon God’s providential care! If God numbers our hairs, much more does He number our heads. He takes care of our lives, our needs, our concerns, and our souls. God’s universal providence extends itself to all creatures, and to all their actions–even the smallest and most minute!

Matthew Henry

Accident or Appointment?

Incidents of common life

Providence may be seen as the finger of God, not merely in those events which shake nations and are duly emblazoned on the page of history–but in little incidents of common life. Yes, in the motion of a grain of dust, the trembling of a dew-drop, the flight of a swallow, or the movements of a fish!

Charles Spurgeon

Preserved from danger

We talk of God’s providence when we have hairbreadth escapes. But are they not quite as much divine providences, when we are [or are not] preserved from danger?

Charles Spurgeon

The smallest trifles

It is most important for us to learn that the smallest trifles are as much arranged by the God of Providence–as the most momentous events! He who counts the stars–has also numbered the hairs of our heads. Our lives and deaths are predestined–but so, also, are our sitting down and our rising up.

Charles Spurgeon

The minutest details

Scripture everywhere teaches that even the minutest details of life are of divine ordering!

Louis Berkhof

Under His control

Jesus rules the whole world for the good of His people. All the arrangements of Providence are under His control. Nothing is done in the entire universe, without His command or His permission.

Charles Spurgeon

The best remedy for affliction

The best remedy for affliction, is sweet submission to God’s providence. What can’t be cured, must be endured!”

Charles Spurgeon

Beware of doubting

If God has given His Son to die for us–let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.”

J.C. Ryle

A salve for the sharpest pain

Divine Providence is a downy pillow for an aching head–and a blessed salve for the sharpest pain. He who can feel that his times are in the hand of God–need not tremble at anything that is in the hand of man!”

Charles Spurgeon