# “What do you understand by the providence of God?” – The Heidelberg Catechism

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**27. Q. What do you understand by the providence of God?**

**A.** God’s providence is His almighty and ever present power,[1] whereby, as with
His hand, He still upholds heaven and earth and all creatures,[2] and so governs
them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and 
drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty,[3] indeed, all things, come not 
by chance[4] but by His fatherly hand.[5]

> [1] Jer. 23:23, 24; Acts 17:24-28. [2] Heb. 1:3. [3] Jer. 5:24; Acts 14:15-17;
> John 9:3; Prov. 22:2. [4] Prov. 16:33. [5] Matt. 10:29.

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