Dr. Boyd’s vision is of a reactive God who must “work around” the whims of His creation, unable to ensure His will is carried out. This is not the God of “unceasing activity” who “directs everything” that Dr. Packer described. Again, the providence of God is not a now-and-then operation, as though God were watching from a distance, constantly surprised by accidents, darting in once in a while to fix things after the fact, regularly frustrated by His unruly and out-of-control creation. Confidence