Dict: easton - Providence

easton:

Providence @ literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God's preserving and governing all things by means of second causes kjv@Psalms:18:35 kjv@Psalms:63:8; kjv@Acts:17:28; kjv@Colossians:1:17; kjv@Hebrews:1:3). God's providence extends to the natural world kjv@Psalms:104:14 kjv@Psalms:135:5-7; kjv@Acts:14:17), the brute creation kjv@Psalms:104:21-29; kjv@Matthew:6:26 kjv@Matthew:10:29), and the affairs of men ( kjv@1Chronicles:16:31; kjv@Psalms:47:7; kjv@Proverbs:21:1; kjv@Job:12:23; kjv@Daniel:2:21 kjv@Daniel:4:25), and of individuals ( kjv@1Samuel:2:6; kjv@Psalms:18:30; kjv@Luke:1:53; kjv@James:4:13-15). It extends also to the free actions of men kjv@Exodus:12:36; kjv@1Samuel:24:9-15; kjv@Psalms:33:14-15; kjv@Proverbs:16:1 kjv@Proverbs:19:21 kjv@Proverbs:20:24 ; 21:1), and things sinful ( kjv@2Samuel:16:10 kjv@2Samuel:24:1; kjv@Romans:11:32; kjv@Acts:4:27-28), as well as to their good actions kjv@Philippians:2:13 kjv@Philippians:4:13; kjv@2Corinthians:12:9-10; kjv@Ephesians:2:10; kjv@Galatians:5:22-25). As regards sinful actions of men, they are represented as occurring by God's permission kjv@Genesis:45:5 kjv@Genesis:50:20. Comp. kjv@1Samuel:6:6; kjv@Exodus:7:13 kjv@Exodus:14:17; kjv@Acts:2:3 kjv@Acts:3:18 kjv@Acts:4:27 -28), and as controlled kjv@Psalms:76:10) and overruled for good kjv@Genesis:50:20; kjv@Acts:3:13). God does not cause or approve of sin, but only limits, restrains, overrules it for good. The mode of God's providential government is altogether unexplained. We only know that it is a fact that God does govern all his creatures and all their actions; that this government is universal kjv@Psalms:103:17-19), particular kjv@Matthew:10:29-31), efficacious kjv@Psalms:33:11; kjv@Job:23:13), embraces events apparently contingent kjv@Proverbs:16:9 kjv@Proverbs:16:33 kjv@Proverbs:19:21 kjv@Proverbs:21:1 ), is consistent with his own perfection ( kjv@2Timothy:2:13), and to his own glory kjv@Romans:9:17 kjv@Romans:11:36).