10773. EXODUS CHAPTER 38.

TEACHINGS ABOUT CHARITY AND FAITH

The word that is used to describe the Lord's governing of things in heaven and on earth is Providence; and since everything good that is an aspect of love and every truth that composes faith originates in Him, and none of it whatever in any human being, it is evident that the Lord's Divine Providence is present within every single thing that contributes to the salvation of the human race. This the Lord teaches in the following manner in John,

I am the way, the truth, and the life. John 14:6.

And elsewhere,

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, [neither] can you unless you abide in Me. Apart from Me you cannot do anything. John 15:4-5.