2. What connections do you see between God’s creation of the universe (Gen. 1:1–3; and John 1:1–3) and His maintenance of it? (See Heb. 1:3.)
3. Read the following passages about God’s providence in creation. Compare two or three of these verses with the secular materialism of our day, which presents the universe as nothing more than a cosmic accident with no divine meaning or purpose.
Job 9:7
. . . who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars . . .
Job 12:10
In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Psalm 107:33–34 He turns rivers into a desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground, a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Psalm 135:7
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Psalm 147:9
He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.
Isaiah 41:19
I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together . . .
Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the L ord , who does all these things.
Matthew 5:45
For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
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