I am sure that people familiar with history
would say, “Well, God didn’t do anything.
We never saw any gigantic hand coming down
and picking up the Israelite people and plucking
them out of the land and scattering them. We
never saw a gigantic fist come out of the clouds
and smash that temple.” Neither of those things
was ever witnessed by anyone, so therefore
our modern secularists would conclude that
God had nothing to do with those things.
Yes, my friend, there is the invisible hand of God
in providence. All of the founding fathers of
this country believed strongly in the overriding
providence of God. George Washington had
several horses shot from under him and had four bullet holes in his coat while fighting in wars, and yet he was never hit. Even when a chief told all of his Indians during the French and Indian Wars to forget everyone else and just hit that man on the white horse, he was not touched.
And when the War for Independence had ended and Washington had seen how God had worked in one incredible way after another to advance the cause of the American armies and to impede the British, he said that the person who cannot see the providential hand of God in all of this must be worse than an infidel. Have you seen it? I am quite confident that we have many people in this nation who are worse today than infidels, because to them it is entirely invisible. And, of course, that is what the founders referred to as the “invisible hand of God.”
I don’t know about you, but when anything bad happens in my life, whether to the church, to my family, to myself, or to this nation, the first thing that I do, and I hope that you do too, is get on my knees in prayer and ask God, “Lord, is there something in my life that is causing me and others to be chastened?”
