# “We dwell in a temple of providence” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2021-09-09T12:00:19-05:00
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“We have faith in God. We believe ‘that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them
that diligently seek Him’ (**Heb. 11:6**).

We do not believe in the powers of nature operating of themselves apart from constant
emanations of power from the Great and Mighty One, who is the Sustainer as well 
as the Creator of all things.

Far be it from us to banish God from His own universe. Neither do we believe in 
a merely nominal deity, as those do who make all things to be God, for we conceive
pantheism to be only another form of atheism.

We know the Lord as a distinct personal existence, a real God, infinitely more real
than the things which are seen and handled, more real even than ourselves, for we
are but shadows. He alone is the I AM, abiding the same for ever and ever.

We believe in a God of purposes and plans, who has not left a blind fate to tyrannize
over the world, much less an aimless chance to rock it to and fro. We are not fatalists,
neither are we doubters of providence and predestination.

We are believers in a God “who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will”(**
Eph. 1:11**).

We do not conceive of the Lord as having gone away from the world, and left it and
the inhabitants thereof to themselves; we believe in Him as continually presiding
in all the affairs of life.

We, by faith, perceive the hand of the Lord giving to every blade of grass its own
drop of dew, and to every young raven its meat.

We see the present power of God in the flight of every sparrow, and hear His goodness
in the song of every lark.

We believe that ‘the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof’ (**Psalm 24:1**),
and we go forth into it, not as into the domains of Satan where light comes not,
nor into a chaos where rule is unknown, nor into a boiling sea where fate’s resistless
billows shipwreck mortals at their will; but we walk boldly on, having God within
us and around us, living and moving and having our being in Him, and so, by faith,
we dwell in a temple of providence and grace wherein everything doth speak of His
glory.

We believe in a present God wherever we may be, and a working and operating God 
accomplishing His own purposes steadfastly and surely in all matters, places, and
times; working out His designs as much in what seemeth evil as in that which is 
manifestly good; in all things driving on in His eternal chariot towards the goal
which infinite wisdom has chosen, never slackening His pace nor drawing the rein,
but for ever, according to the eternal strength that is in Him, speeding forward
without pause.

We believe in this God as being faithful to everything that He has spoken, a God
who can neither lie nor change. The God of Abraham is the God and Father of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, and He is our God this day.

We do not believe in the ever-shifting views of the Divine Being which differing
philosophies are adopting; the God of the Hebrews is our God,—Jehovah, Jah, the 
Mighty One, the covenant-keeping God,—’this God is our God for ever and ever: He
will be our Guide even unto death’ (**Psalm 48:14**).”

–Charles H. Spurgeon,_ [An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848717954?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1900/1960), 4-5.

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