I think that even Protestants would benefit enormously from reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church. There is nothing in this statement that Protestants would disagree with. It is carefully crafted and elegant, drawing its ideas from all of the great Catholic theologians all throughout church history, as well as the clear teaching of Scripture.
I never dreamed I would be recommending this, but life is funny that way. Through a series of seemingly meaningless coincidences, I found myself on this path. Not sure if I will convert, but in many ways, I have already been converted. I don't have anything against Protestants. It's not that kind of conversion where someone becomes disillusioned with their faith and looks for another Christian option. No, not at all. I have nothing but gratitude in my heart for those Christians who shared God's Word with me from the time I was a small child.
Does God guide the world and my life?
Yes, but in a mysterious way; God guides everything along paths that only he knows, leading it to its perfection. At no point in time does something that he has created fall out of his hands.
God influences both the great events of history and also the little events of our personal life, without reducing our freedom or making us mere marionettes in his eternal plans. In God "we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). God is in everything we meet in all the changes in our life, even in the painful events and the seemingly meaningless coincidences. God wants to write straight even with the crooked lines of our life. What he takes away from us and what he gives us, the ways in which he strengthens us and the ways in which he tests us all these are arrangements and signs of his will. (YOUCAT question 49)
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