Ultra Fulcrum

I’m reading Saint Augustine On the Trinity and along the way, he gives this nifty little perspective on God’s power and control over his creation. The Maker alone, he says, has the power

to create and to rule the creature [created things] from the innermost and highest pivotal cause of all causation.

In other words, God is so present with what he has made that he governs and directs all things with the utmost precision, as it were, by the omnipotent pivot or fulcrum of his divine wisdom and might. He has his creation easily in hand like the artist’s brush (or Apple Pencil).

Therefore, we can trust him with all the affairs of life and eternity.