providence is the great biblical teaching that everything that happens in the universe is accomplishing God’s sovereign purposes. Now, the problem is that many of us don’t like being out of control, and so we very quickly move from providence to presumption. We believe that God is in control until his being in charge moves us in a direction that we don’t want to go. Then we question his wisdom, his goodness, his power, or the ability of American Airlines to get people off its airplanes. While God