Our Superintending Providence!
"Yet who knows whether you have come
to the kingdom for such a time as this?"
Esther 4:14
The word providence refers to the
foreseeing, guiding, protecting,
and rearranging hand of God on the history of the world and on our
personal lives. America’s Founding Fathers leaned heavily on this
providence doctrine. According to historians, George Washington’s
mother would read to him from Esther 4, emphasizing Mordecai’s
question to Esther: “Yet who knows whether you have come to the
kingdom for such a time as this?” Young Washington absorbed the
understanding that God controls our events, placing us where and
when He wants. As his life unfolded, Washington spoke repeatedly
of providence. He talked about the “favorable interpositions” of
God’s providence, the “ordering of a kind Providence,” and “the
hand of Providence” that spared America as a nation.
How remarkable that the same hand that guides the
course of history also directs the circumstances of the
lives of His children. Joseph was a man who yielded
his life to the providential plan of God, and he became
blessed and greatly used. God is in control of the tides
of time; let Him also order the days of your life.
"A superintending Providence is ordering
everything for the best—and, that in
due time, all will end well."
George Washington
