My writing has been a therapy that I didn’t expect to become a blogsite, a soapbox for the soul. Time For Providence has been unique in that it has allowed for the traumas and talents of, not just my life, but my wife’s and friends’ lives to be given a small platform for an audience that can relate and learn, learn and relate to our shared experiences in this world through faith by God’s grace.

However, thus far, my hope had been to reveal the providence of God—for Jesus is the foundation, the soapbox, and the narration of our stories, whether good or bad. There is a great warning provided for me within the conscience of my soul that the Holy Spirit uses to alert me of danger and the consequence of judgement if I continue in my pattern of sin – which is to continue in a pattern of unfaithfulness.

The providence of God solves a great mystery about the nature of my relationship with God. Unless I’m mistaken, and I’m open to that, but I believe that the spiritual condition of my soul is examinable through the lens of providence, which is to have witnessed the evidence of divine care. To witness the evidence of divine care is to witness the gospel; the gospel is the event of God’s cross in the flesh of Jesus Christ that connects every soul to that divine experience as a personal reality throughout eternity.

The reality of providence is an experience of our marital covenant between the divine of God and the soul of Man.

And I think, upon investigating the providence of God in our lives, solves a great mystery about Christ and the Church to us today for our future:

Ephesians 5

²⁸ So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, ³⁰ because we are members of His body. ³¹ For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. ³² This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. ³³ Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. (emphasis mine)

What can you identify today, Reader, that can be described as a time for providence?

Today Laura and I went out to eat and then shop, my experience of providence was to endure the temptation to purchase a pair of Bottega shoes for Laura, not for any other reason than to prove I could because Laura is worth it (even if it put us further into debt).

In just that little bit of information about our day today, the reader can witness, not just one experience of providence, but the constant presence of providence for my soul as I live and breathe this world.