Someone to Trust When I Don't Understand What's Happening

How does the knowledge of God's creation and providence help me?

• I can be patient when things go against me,
• thankful when things go well,
• and for the future I can have good confidence in my faithful God and Father
• that nothing in creation can separate me from His love.
• For all creatures are so completely in God's hand that without His will
• they can neither move nor be moved.

James 1:3 ...knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

1 Thessalonians 5:18  ...in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Psalm 55:22  Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Proverbs 21:1. The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD,  like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

God's providence does not give me easy answers for why everything happens.  

• Instead, it gives me someone to trust, even when I do not understand.  
• I trust God who created the world and continues to hold it in His powerful and gracious hand.

Psalm 20:7  Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 10

Adapted Excerpt from Our Only Comfort by Stephen C. Shaffer