In his lovely book ,'The Hidden Hand', R.C.Sproul writes of God who not only sees us but is actively involved in looking after us .He writes the following,'He not only watches us,He watches over us. The child's most simple prayer is,''Please watch over Mommy and Daddy,Grandma'', etc.It is the watching over us that goes to the heart of divine providence. It is God's fatherly care for His creatures that the word providence encompasses. That means God is involved in human affairs, He is not like Aristotle's god, the Unmoved Mover, who remains aloof and totally uninvolved with human history. Will Durant once compared Aristotle's god with the monarch of England. whom he described as a ''do- nothing king who reigns but doesn't rule''.The biblical God is not the unmoved. He is a moved and moving, rules as well as reigns.'
'God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea;
And rides upon the storm'
William Cowper'
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