# The Place of Prudence in Providence

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Published: 2026-02-23T10:21:00+00:00
Episode link: https://remsenbible.substack.com/p/the-place-of-prudence-in-providence
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Transcript generated by AI. The sermon was not . Please comment if you notice any errors. The Place of Prudence in Providence If you spend enough time reading the Bible over the course of years, and there’s different ways you can read the Bible. A lot of us, if we do read the Bible, a lot of us, we just leave the Bible on the shelf and let other people read it for us. But even if you’re reading it, it’s very easy to fall into the habit of just, I need a little bit of a nugget to get me through the day, some kind of encouragement, some kind of a pick-me-up. Ideally, what we’re doing when we’re reading the Bible is we are listening to what God has to say. God has revealed himself through the scriptures. And so as we’re reading, we want to understand what the author who is inspired by the Holy Spirit is intending to communicate. If you do that over the course of time, there’s going to be certain places where you feel like there is tension. And one of those tension points is between the principle of grace, of self-giving love, self-sacrificing love on the one hand, and the call on the other hand to wisdom, to prudence, to thinking decisions and actions through very carefully. Now these two things, wisdom, prudence, and self-giving, self-sacrificing love, they aren’t actually intention. They are not opposed to one another because they’re both expressions of God’s own character. And one of my favorite classical doctrines of God in the history of Christianity is the doctrine of God’s simplicity. Not that God is easy to understand, but what that means is that God is not divided. God is one. And so his attributes, his characteristics are not fighting against one another. In the mind and heart of God, his justice and his love aren’t fighting a war. And it’s like, oh, is God’s ju…

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