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that Christ was in the beginning with God and nothing was created without Him, and Christ Himself said that who soever had seen Him had seen the Cre ator. Look at Christ and you cannot doubt that the all wise and all powerful One must love all the beings He has created. God, Our Tender Keeper. God is not only the Creator but also the tender keeper of all He has created. The psalmist David, out of his heart’s experience, gives us in his song of joy and thanksgiving for God’s many mer cies, an insight into the life of intimacy which he had with his Creator who was also his keeper. David thanks God for sins forgiven, for healing diseases, for redeemed life both spiritual and physical and for food. Do we thank Him for like blessings? Instead of in flicting pain, poverty, misery and death —the wages of sin, God has spared to us life and health and joy and comfort and more than all else has offered Christ as our Saviour; Though our ser vice may be faulty God looks on the heart and if we are sincere, He will accept it and crown our labors, though we fall far short of our ideals. Is it any wonder when we think of these things, that the psalmist begins and ends the song “Bless the Lord, O! my soul?” God, the Loving Father. Not only is God the Creator and the Tender Keeper but He is also our Loving Father. This extract from the sermon on thè mount illustrates the Father’s care of His children. Let us remember our relationship to Him and trust Him for all things for He knows our needs. If He has given life, shall He not add food and clothing? Our first step, how ever, must be complete submission to Him. God wants our undivided service. God must come before riches, honor, comfort, ease, even before the love of those nearest and dearest to us. Does He occupy first place in your life? If not will you give it to Him now? The
fowls of the air and the lilies of the field are examples of God’s care. He is not their Father as He is ours, yet He cares for them. How much more then will He include us in His daily care. May no distracting thought of what the future may bring forth interfere with our best service each day, for though each day has its difficulties and tempta tions, it also has its help from God, its grace and mercy. Give all your energy to the work of the day doing with your might what your hands find to do, leav ing the future in His hands. “Absolutely tender! Absolutely true! Understanding all things, Understand ing you! Infinitely loving—Exquisitely near— This is God, Our Father, What have we to fear?” The Heavenly Father’s Care of His Children. Gen. 1:1-27; Matt. 6:24-34. Memory Verse: “He Careth For You.” 1 Pet. 5:7. Approach: Who can tell me what we call that great big round ball up in the sky that is so bright and dazzling? The sun. Now the sun is very won derful for it gives BEGINNERS AND u s l i g h t a n d PRIMARY warmth , and if it Mabel L. Merrill was not for the sun we could not live on this earth, and all the trees, plants and animals would die, for it would be so dark and so cold everything would freeze and die. Who made the sun? Yes, God made it, and that is why it is so wonderful, and so different from any thing that man could make. Could any man in all the world, even the smartest man that ever lived make the sun? No, indeed he could not. Today our story is how God made this world in which we live. Is God not very kind and lov ing to tell us how there came to be a world? Surely He is, and our Memory Verse tells us something that makes us
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