The Governor

Surely affirmation will follow Boethius' words:

"This world could never have achieved its unity of form from such different and contrary parts unless there were One who could bring together such diverse things. And, once this union was effected, the very diversity of discordant and opposed natures would have ripped it apart and destroyed it, IF there were not One who could sustain what He had made. Nor could the stable order of nature continue, nor its motions be so regular in place, time, causality, space and quality, UNLESS there were One who could govern this variety of change while remaining immutable Himself."

Lady Philosophy provides a picture to illustrate his statement:

“He [God] is, in a manner of speaking, the wheel and rudder by which the vessel of the world is kept stable and undamaged.”

Paul states it like this:

“In Him all things hold together.”

And C.S. Lewis states it another way:

“I allow and insist that the Eternal Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, can never be, nor have been, confined to any place at all: it is rather in Him that all places exist.”

If He governs all things, all things hold together in Him, and in Him all things exist, then why should anyone ever question the direction of the world? Why should anyone ever doubt His supreme power and regulation over all things? Why should anyone ever fear whether or not the will of the Father will prevail? Why should anyone resist the submission to the One in whom all things exist, the One who is the “wheel and rudder," the One who is constant and unchanging, and the One in whom “all things hold together?” Sin has so impaired man’s vision that he has failed to remember the governor of all things; he has forgotten God, though he clearly accepts, consciously or unconsciously, and remembers his own existence on a daily basis.

JDG