The doctrine of providence teaches Christians that they are never in the grip of blind forces (fortune, chance, luck, fate); all that happens to them is divinely planned, and each event comes as a new summons to trust, obey, and rejoice, knowing that all is for one’s spiritual and eternal good (Romans 8:28).
Commentary from Concise Theology, p. 56, by J. I. Packer. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 1993
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