Preservation
Providence and Natural Law
Providence · 6 verses
God's ordinary providence operates through the regular patterns and laws He established in creation, which are themselves expressions of His faithful character and wise design. These natural laws describe God's normal mode of operation, not autonomous forces independent of divine will.
Scripture References
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
“He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.”
“Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?”
“Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.”
“Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.”
“Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.”