Question 28

What advantage is it to us to know that God has created, and by his providence does still uphold all things?

That we may be patient in adversity;⁸⁶⁸⁶    Rom. 5:3; James 1:3; Ps. 39:9; Job 1:21, 22. thankful in prosperity;⁸⁷⁸⁷    Deut. 8:10; 1 Thess. 5:18. and that in all things, which may hereafter befall us, we place our firm trust in our faithful God and Father,⁸⁸⁸⁸    Ps. 55:22; Rom. 5:4. that nothing shall separate us from his love;⁸⁹⁸⁹    Rom. 8:38, 39. since all creatures are so in his hand, that without his will they cannot so much as move.⁹⁰⁹⁰    Job 1:12; Job 2:6; Acts 17:25, 28; Prov. 21:1.