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According to Martin Luther, divine providence began when God created the world with everything needed for human life, including both physical things and natural laws.

In Luther's Small Catechism, the explanation of the first article of the Apostles ' Creed declares that everything people have that is good is given and preserved by God, either directly or through other people or things.

Of the services others provide us through family, government, and work, he writes, " we receive these blessings not from them, but, through them, from God.

" Since God uses everyone's useful tasks for good, people should look not down upon some useful vocations as being less worthy than others.

Instead people should honor others, no matter how lowly, as being the means God uses to work in the world.