He lay down His life to provide redemption for us***jpman***

He carries all things forward to their consummation.

He terminates as well as originates all the processes of the universe--all beings, all things, all existence.

We are not to think of Him as severed from Bib works, but as pervading and upholding them, and still conducting them all.

He is the centre of all forces, the fountain of all law, the sustainer of all existence.
Look around you in your own world; in the multitude of the activities that you witness you behold the exercise of His power.

It is seen in the flowing river, in the restless ocean, in the rising and setting sun, in the still or stormy atmosphere, in all activities of organic substance, in animal and vegetable life.

It is His power that bursts in the budding of the plant; His beauty which is unfolded in the opening flower; it is His providence which shapes the life of the buzzing insect, His will that determines the mode and manner of its death.

Even the smallest grain of dust takes its shape from His hands; He directs the course of every particle of spray, every feather and every snowflake in the breeze.

There is nothing too minute for His care, as there is nothing too great for His might.

Look into the inner world of the soul, and with equal certainty you can discern His movements there.

Not only did He lay down His life to provide redemption for us, but by His Spirit He applies that redemption to the individual soul.

The work of grace in its beginning, its continuance, its consummation, is all of Him.

There is human instrumentality, but the efficiency is all Divine.

@jpman
(Mark 16:15..And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation")