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Experts About Providence (concludes) Elder Mark Green

It is impossible for us to say with absolute certainty that something was or was not a
particular temporal judgment of God. If when those things happen to us personally
our consciences smite us, then we should take heed. Apart from that, we simply do
not know, and the reason we do not know is that we do not need to know. If we needed

to know, God would tell us. Since we do realize that it is because of sin that we make
our living by the sweat of our faces and are surrounded by thorns and thistles and
wars, that alone ought to make us humble and repentant in the face of the calamities
and disasters of this world.

When we presume to answer questions that we cannot answer, all we accomplish is
to confuse God's people. We know that God can and does intervene in the affairs of
men to impose his judgment, and we also know that the curse in Adam's day was

alone sufficient to bring about great calamities upon this earth. We know what hap-
pens to us, but we do not always know the particulars as to why — one way OR the
other. Let us be content to know the things God has revealed, and leave the rest with
his infallible wisdom.

Editorial from
“The Primitive Baptist, Christian Pathway, and Gospel Appeal,

August – September 2019”

Zion’s Lamp

James 4:14 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow, for what is your

life? It is even a vapour, what appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Editor: Time belongs to God, to rule as He will according to His own purpose. We
can only observe it as it passes, and thank Him for the sweet moments His provi-

dence and grace allows us.