4. Questions 1.Read Acts 17:28. What does this passage suggest about our existence at this very moment? In other words, what power is operating to keep us alive? 2.Read Hebrews 1:3. What does this passage suggest about the entirety of God’s creation? In other words, what keeps God’s creation going?

5. Questions 3.Read Job 38:4-33. What is God constantly doing as referred to in this passage? 4.Read Psalm 104:10-19, 32; and Matthew 5:45. Identify some things under God’s control from these passages.

6. Questions 5.Read Job 38:32-41; Luke 12:24; Psalm 145:15-16; Psalm 104:29; Matthew 10:29. what do these passages tell us about God’s relationship to animals and nature? 6.What process is described in Psalm 135:6-7 that God controls? (see also Job 36:27-28)

7. Discussion Question 7.For the most part, do these acts of God’s providence mentioned in these questions make a distinction between good and evil people? Do they suggest God is actively involved in His creation? Do they show God as being concerned only with the “big things” (See also Matthew 10:30; Job 38:37; Psalm 50:11)? How would you describe God’s relationship with creation: Close or far? (Psalm 104:2, 3, 11, 14, 16, 27, 28).