The presentation on Providence at this past week’s New Members class included the statement that every time you roll dice, the Lord has determined the outcome, based on Proverbs 16.33 – “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.”

Does God really have control over ALL the little things, like EVERY roll of the dice?  Why would he care?

First of all, can he do it?  Yes.  This is the God who created the entire universe, where there are more stars in the heavens than there are grains of sand on the earth.  The cosmos is unimaginably huge and it is still expanding!  On the smaller than tiny end of things, electron microscopes have discovered that the interior of millions of human cells in your body is like a manufacturing plant, with inputs, outputs, storage areas and processing all determined by DNA and messages received.  The God who set up stars and cells can certainly handle a few million dice rolls per second.

Second, does he do it?  The Bible says it is so.  An abundance of passages point to the ongoing work of the One True Creator God in all aspects of nature and our lives.  The Heidelberg Catechism Q&A #1 states that “Not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my father in heaven.”  Every hair, every dice roll; God is in charge.

Third, why does he care?  Romans 8.28 says that God works all things together for our good , for those who believe in him.  Part of God’s nature is to care for his people.  As a result, his people are generally growing in praising and glorifying Him. God cares for His glory and for our good.