What do you believe when you say: "I believe In God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth?"

     That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who out of nothing created heaven and earth with all that is In then, who also upholds and governs them by His eternal counsel and providence, is for the sake of Christ His Son my God and my Father. I trust in Him so completely that I have no doubt that He will provide me with all things necessary for body and soul. Moreover, whatever evil He sends upon me in this troubled life He will turn to my good, for He is able to do it, being almighty God, and Is determined to do it, being a faithful Father.

1. God Created the World

A. God's creative interest is the context for reality. [A Prayer of Moses the man of God.] Lord, thou bast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. (Psalm 90:1-2)

B. Nothing exists apart from God as an independent reality. Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; (Isaiah 44:24)

Life does not have neutral zones.

C. Reality cannot be understood correctly apart from God's creation. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. in him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended It not. (John1: 1-5)

D. Whatever may lie beyond the reality we know is still a product of the same God who gave us the Bible. By The word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. (Psalm 33:6)

II. All of Reality Follow's the Maker's Design

A. God directs the world by providence, leaving nothing to chance. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. (Matthew 10:29)

B. Redemptive history displays the same providential interest which appears in physics and the laws, God uses to direct the material reality. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down hand on the right hand of the Majesty on high;  (Hebrews 1:1-3)

C. The design of die Creator's providence never moves far from Jesus. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received The Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Romans 8:15-16)

Ill. Believers Face Life Confidently

A. Jesus taught believers to be confident. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather Into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, o ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things (to the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first The kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:25-34)

Do not encourage fear and worry to rob you.

B. The Creator uses all the events of your life for His good purposes and in your best interest. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)

C. When the Creator is so much greater than we are it is offensive to expect less of Him than of ourselves. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will be give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? if ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:9-11)

D. Put anxiety where it belongs. And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. (Luke 12:22)