Well, God sustains, upholds, and governs over everything that He makes, leading it all to

its intended end.

This is the theme of Pastor John's wonderful new book, Providence.

His truth is so glorious.

I mean, we are meant to see and save it for ourselves so deeply that it changes our

lives.

And so we're celebrating these implications on Wednesdays, and there's a total of ten

of them.

This time, in episode 1589, we looked at how the precious Providence of God means that

in the suffering of Christians, neither Satan nor man nor nature nor chance is wielding

decisive control, God is sovereign over all of our suffering.

And that means none of our suffering is meaningless.

It's always purposeful, it's always measured, always wise, always loving, always working

for us an eternal weight of glory.

That was invocation number six.

Here now with invocation number seven is Pastor John.

The seventh real life effect of seeing and savoring the all-pervading, all-embracing,

all-governing Providence of God is that it makes us alert and resistant to man-centered

substitutes that pose as good news, but our false alternatives to the God-centered vision

of reality and salvation in the Bible.

Let me say it another way.

There is something about the embrace, the joyful heartfelt, intelligent embrace of this

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