In response to my post the other week about God in disasters, my friend Drew lent me this book yesterday.I look forward to reading it and hopefully getting a better grasp on God's role in, or view of such 'natural' disasters as the tsunami a few years back, and more recently the cyclone in Burma and earthquake in China.
I will let you know what I learn.
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I like your blog. Perhaps you don't care about old stuff, but a 17th century English minister named Thomas Watson wrote a nice little book called "All Things for Good" - in it he says, "Things in the world are not governed by second causes, by the counsels of men [sic], by the stars and planets, but by divine providence. Providence is the queen and governess of the world. There are 3 things in providence: God's foreknowing, God's determining, and God's directing all things to their periods and events." He uses a lot of old, quaint language, but his words are comforting.
Thankyou very much for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it. No, I DO care about old stuff very much!
I would like to try and track down the book you spoke of. The quote was helpful to me.
Foreknowing, determining and directing-- this really reminds you of God's almighty hand in the world.
It reminds me a bit of a passage I love, Romans 8:29-30, which uses the words 'forknew, predestined, called, justified and glorified' to describe the road we walk as Christians, under God's sovereign hand.
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