第10个主日 第二部分 父神
第二十七问
Q. What do you understand by the providence of God?
你是如何理解神的保守之工（护理）的？
A. The almighty and ever present power of God [1] by which God upholds, as with his hand, heaven and earth and all creatures, [2] and so rules them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and lean years, food and drink, health and sickness, prosperity and poverty - [3] all things, in fact, come to us not by chance [4] but by his fatherly hand. [5]
神藉着祂的全能而永存的大能[1]，用祂手托住天地万有[2]， 并如此治理它们，无论一草一叶，雨水干旱，丰年荒年，或食或饮，健康疾病，繁荣贫困[3]—— 事实上，这一切临到我们都不是偶然[4]，乃是出于祂为父的手[5]。
- Jer. 23:23-24; Acts 17:24-28
- Heb. 1:3
- Jer. 5:24; Acts 14:15-17; John 9:3; Prov. 22:2
- Prov. 16:33
- Matt. 10:29
第二十八问
Q. How does the knowledge of God’s creation and providence help us?
关于神创造和保守之工（护理）的知识是如何帮助我们的？
A. We can be patient when things go against us, [1] thankful when things go well, [2] and for the future we can have good confidence in our faithful God and Father that nothing in creation will separate us from his love. [3] For all creatures are so completely in God’s hand that without his will they can neither move nor be moved. [4]
我们得以在逆境中忍耐[1]，在顺境中感恩[2]。 为我们的未来，在我们信实的父神里面得有美好的确信：创造之中没有什么能叫我们与祂的爱分离[3]。 又因万有完全在神的手中，没有祂的旨意就不能行动，也不能被挪移[4]。
- Job 1:21-22; James 1:3
- Deut. 8:10; 1 Thess. 5:18
- Ps. 55:22; Rom. 5:3-5; 8:38-39
- Job 1:12; 2:6; Prov. 21:1; Acts 17:24-28