\u2018It is a wonderful book; the Banner serves us all by keeping it in print. Flavel does a wonderful job of helping you to meditate on how God\u2019s sovereign kindness is seen even in the strangest circumstances . . . he knew suffering himself, and he was faithful.\u2019 — MARK DEVER<\/p>\n
Do we believe that everything in the world and in our own lives down to the minutest details is ordered by the providence of God? Do we ever take time to observe and meditate on the workings of Providence? If not, are we missing much?<\/p>\n
It should be a delight and pleasure to us to discern how God works all things in the world for his own glory and the good of his people. But it should be an even greater pleasure to observe the particular designs of Providence in our own lives. \u2018O, what a world of rarities,\u2019 says John Flavel, \u2018are to be found in Providence . . . With what profound wisdom, infinite tenderness, and incessant vigilance it has managed all that concerns us from first to last.\u2019 It was to persuade Christians of the excellency of observing and meditating upon this that Flavel first published his Mystery of Providence<\/em> in 1678.<\/p>\n Since then the work has gone through many editions. Based on the words \u2018God that performeth all things for me\u2019 (Psalm 57:2) this work shows us how Providence works for us in every stage and experience of our lives. The book is richly illustrated from the lives of believers and from the author’s wide reading in church history. There are avenues of spiritual knowledge and experience opened to the Christian in this work which he probably never knew existed.<\/p>\nBook Reviews<\/h2>\n