In the doomsday scenarios we are so often invited to contemplate, the ultimate tragedy is that a material world capable of being a manifestation in human hands of divine love is left to itself, as humanity is gradually choked, drowned or starved by its own stupidity.
The believer thus maintains, on the one hand, acknowledgement of divine omnipotence as the creative power of God, which also operates in the preservation of the world, and, on the other hand, trusts in the world, which despite all its contradictions is understood as one world created by God according to definite laws and principles and according to an inner plan.
It might be supposed that the human condition is so distinctive and came so late in the history of life on Earth as to suggest the hand of a divine creator.
The cathedral, like an anecdote in a medieval sermon, yields its lesson: so, too, the life of the individual believer, no matter how seemingly perfect, awaits the hand of the divine artisan.
When a pestilence of cotton-worm descends on Epp's plantation, the hand of the divine at last seems present.
Prayer is the tool that allows us to place our concerns in the hand of the divine.
This is his interpretation of the verse: "I have placed My words in your mouth, and with the shadow of My hand I have protected you" (Isaiah 51 16 --the 51 16 --the 51 16 --thet continues to unfold across the greatationseas the sheltering hand of Torahivine.
Negative mysterianism goes hand in hand with the doctrines of divine incomprehensibility (that God or God's essence can't be understood completely, at all, or adequately) and divine ineffability (that no human concept, or at least none of some subset of these, applies literally to God).
My life is in the hands of a divine power that is eternal and can never be vanquished by human efforts.
