GOD’S PROVIDENCE: PRESERVING AND GUIDING HIS CREATION, PART 1.

According to Millard J. Erickson “while creation is God’s originating work with respect to the Universe, providence is His continuing relationship to it. By providence we mean the continuing action of God by which He preserves in existence the creation He has brought into being, and guides it to His intended purposes for it.”1 I believe that God has continued His work in the Universe by being its Great Provider, by preserving and guiding His creation to His intended purposes!

His Providence as preservation is seen in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Old Testament God is seen making a covenant with Abraham after He had given him great possessions and promising the same for all his offspring!(Genesis (15: 18-21). Here He promises the land that would be to his offspring, which to this day is the source of much conflict when other nations want it for themselves! “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amonites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.’ “

Another example in the Old Testament, God is seen providing the Israelite’s (Abraham’s offspring) needs of food during the great famine while they were in Egypt; at this time God had already set Joseph as a government official in Egypt, who was able to provide the food needed for his family! Because of this, Israel as a nation was preserved! (Genesis 45-46). In the New Testament Jesus teaches about not being anxious for food, clothing or shelter , for God will provide for a person’s every need. He gives the example of how God clothes the grass of the field, how He feed the birds of the air, so then how much more will He not dress and feed us! But that a person is to seek first the kingdom of God! (Matthew 6:25-34). Jesus, also is Provider of His creation, when He shows the miracle of the multiplication of bread and fish: He feeds five thousand with just five barley loaves and two fish! (John 6: 1-15). This provision is supernatural in origin , a miracle!

NOTES

1Millard J. Erickson, Christian Theology,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),413

SALBASHON PA MEDIO DI HESUKRISTU!

Segun ku historia kristian tabata desaroyá, e nòmber ‘Hesus’ tabata konosí komo ‘Yahweh ta Salbashon’. For di e noshonnan di Tèstamènt Bieu di Señor, Redentor, Libertador, Dios, e nifikashonnan aki a wòrdu transferí pa Hesus i kon kristiannan tabata kere den djE. 1 Naturalmente, despues, nos ta mira awor Hesus komo Libertador i Redentor for di piká i skuridat spiritual, ku a drama sanger na krus pa asina paga pa nos pikánan, si nos kere! I ku E ta e úniko kaminda pa Dios! Anto E ta nos Salbador!

Awor nos mester tin un eksperensia di nasementu di nobo pa por tin un relashon kunE! Den Juan 3:3,16 e ta bisa: “ ‘Hesus a kontestá i a bis’é, ‘di bèrdat, mi ta bisa bo, si un hende no nase di nobo, e no por mira e reino di Dios’….’Pasobra Dios a stima mundu asina tantu ku El a duna Su Yu unigénito, pa ken ku kere den djE no bai pèrdí, ma tin bida eterno den dje “Tambe Juan 16-26 ta bisa: “ Hesus a bis’é: ‘AMI TA e resurekshon i e bida. Esun ku kere den Mi, maske e muri, lo biba. I ken ku biba i kere den Mi lo no muri nunka. Bo ta kere esaki?’ “

Pues nos mester kere i arepentí di nos pikánan pa awor tin un relashon ku Dios ku ta bini solamente pa medio di un eksperensia di nase di nobo ku Hesus nos Salbador i Señor! “E komienso di e bida kristian ta rekerí un rekonosementu di un su mes pekaminosidat i un determinashon pa bandoná e manera di biba ku ta sentrá riba su mes.”2

NOTANAN

1Sinclair B. Ferguson, David F. Wright i J.I. Packer, eds., New Dictionary of Theology, (Downers Grove: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988), 610.
2Millard J. Erickson, Teologia Kristian,(Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006),959.

HASI E SIGUIENTE ORASHON PA BO BIRA NASE DI NOBO:
“Hesus mi ta kere ku Bo a muri na krus,
dramando Bo sanger pa pordon di mi pikánan ;
I a lanta atrobe riba e di tres dia!
Mi sa ku mi ta un pekadó. Por fabor pordoná mi di mi pikánan;
Por fabor drenta den mi kurason!
Bin i ta mi Salbador i Señor di mi bida!
Danki Hesus”