What do you understand by the providence of God?

God’s providence is His almighty and ever present power, whereby, as with His hand, He still upholds heaven and earth and all creatures, and so governs them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, indeed, all things, come not by chance but by His fatherly hand.

Proofs

• God’s providence is His almighty and ever present power, (Jeremiah 23:23–24; Acts 17:24–28)
• whereby, as with His hand, He still upholds heaven and earth and all creatures, (Hebrews 1:3)
• and so governs them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, (Jeremiah 5:24; Acts 14:15–17; John 9:3; Proverbs 22:2)
• indeed, all things, come not by chance (Proverbs 16:33)
• but by His fatherly hand. (Matthew 10:29)