Action and Providence of God,

Action and Providence of God,

his Power and his Kindness

This is a new version of the prayer on "The Providence of God." If you want to see the previous version, click here.

We praise you, loving Father, because thanks to the teachings of Jesus, we know you as a providential God, a God involved in creation, or rather, who holds all creation "inside" you. You live in constant contact with nature and with us (Psalm 139.1-12; Acts 17.28).

You not only created the universe, but you continue creating endlessly in such a way, that creation is not yesterday's but today's.

But we believe that your interaction with us is not only natural, but that you can act in a mysterious and ineffable way in our lives; something providential, preternatural or supernatural; something free, by grace. This is much more than simply believing that you sustain and govern the universe.

We can not identify or place your providential acts because they are undetectable, but you are there. Who can say what you are able to do? We are unable to understand your will and action, but we believe that you are "there," in all events of our daily life. In reality you do more for us than we realize or can imagine (Ephesians 3.20,21).

Your will for us is realized through an interaction of yours with nature; everything that happens in the world is the product of your "top-down" action, and the "bottom-up" action of nature.

Your will changes according to what happens in the world, in particular as a consequence of the free will of men and the casual and unforeseen acts of nature. Even our entreaties might "move" you to change. Human selfishness and evil often frustrate your plans and hinder your action.