" We may define God’s providence as follows: God is continually involved with all created things in such a way that he (1) keeps them existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them; (2) cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do; and (3) directs them to fulfill his purposes.1 "

― Voddie T. Baucham Jr. , Joseph and the Gospel of Many Colors: Reading an Old Story in a New Way