118. What does it mean to confess that God made me "and all creatures"?
A. Every person (regardless of age, sex, race, and ethnicity) receives life from God just as I do.
Acts 17:26-27 And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him.
B. All other living creatures receive life from God and depend upon God's care just as I do.
Genesis 1:30 "And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
Genesis 2:19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Matthew 6:26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet you heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
C. All the rest of creation--the universe, this planet, land, sea, and the whole material world--depends upon God for its ongoing existence just as I do.
Psalm 65:5-7 By awesome deeds You answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas; the one who by His strength established the mountains, being girded with might; who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.
Psalm 95:4-5 In His hand are the depts of the earth; the heights of the mountains are His also. The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
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