What we need more than anything at present is to know that God has created all things, and, that He upholds all the events of life in this world. When we know and truly believe these truths, we begin to realize “that we can be patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and, that in all things which hereafter may befall us, we place our firm trust in our faithful God and Father.”

Every morning, as I scroll through my social media feed, I see more and more articles, posts, videos, and comments in which individuals are trying to convince me of how I should be responding to our current situation, medical advice, economic impacts, and civil freedom. I am confronted with videos and posts about how I should be responding to a gut-wrenching shooting of a young black man in the town in which I grew up. I am confronted with contentions over how to define the roles of men and women in the church. All of these things have varying degrees of importance; however, there is one thing that we need to be convinced of more than all these things. It is something increasingly absent from all we are confronted with on social media. It is something that is often absent in my own heart, mind, and words. It respects the posture of our hearts before God in all times and in all places. It is stated in the answer to a question posed in 1563. It is relevant to how we ought to respond to all things and in all circumstances. It is that we need to be “patient in adversity, thankful in prosperity, and that in all things, which may hereafter befall us, we place our firm trust in our faithful God and Father.”

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