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God Is Our Provider
God made this world and everything in it. Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." In the beginning, it was a beautiful, pristine place. He did it for a purpose, to give it to us. Genesis 1:26-28 says, "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." First God gave us life; then, in the same verses, He gave us authority over the whole world. There were no string attached to this gift. It was freely given.