就职业来说，我父亲并不是一个木匠，但他却对木工手艺有兴趣。他喜爱把木头变成一些实用和有趣的东西。作为按照上帝形像造成的人类，我们与生俱来都渴望能制造一些有用也有趣的东西。我们这样做，就是在模仿这位创造天地的上帝。
诗篇33篇回想上帝创造我们周围一切事物的大能大力：天空、太阳、星宿、山脉、和海洋。上帝不但创造了我们见得到的东西，祂更创造了其他我们见不到的美好事物－例如，空气、地心吸力、和声音；还有慈爱、良善、和公义。正如诗篇所说的，上帝是藉着祂话语的能力成就万事的。
在使徒信经中，当我们说上帝是“创造天地的主”时，我们是在宣告，这位创造山脉、森林、和海洋的上帝，也是创造我们每一个人的上帝。除此以外，我们更是在宣告，这位上帝并没有置身事外对受造物概不过问；祂没有这样做，祂仍然以护卫祂所创造的世界为乐。
我们大感欣慰，因为我们知道，这位全能的创造主和护卫主、全能的上帝，也是我们称为我们天父的上帝。上帝看顾我们；祂知道我们的需要；祂永远不会让我们从祂慈爱的看顾中失落的。
诗篇 33:6-9
6诸天藉耶和华的命而造，万象藉他口中的气而成。
7他聚集海水如垒，收藏深洋在库房。
8愿全地都敬畏耶和华，愿世上的居民都惧怕他。
9因为他说有，就有；命立，就立。
“He spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.” - Psalm 33:9
Though my father wasn’t a carpenter by trade, he loved to work with wood. He enjoyed taking a piece of wood and transforming it into something useful and pleasing. As creatures made in the image of God, we all have an inborn desire to make things useful and lovely. In this we imitate God, who created the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 33 recalls God’s almighty power in creating everything around us: the sky, the sun, the stars, the mountains, the oceans. God not only created all that we see; he also created good things we can’t see—like air, gravity, and sound, as well as love, goodness, and justice. God did this, as the psalm says, through the power of his spoken word.
When we say, with the Apostle’s Creed, that God is the “creator of heaven and earth,” we are declaring that the same God who made the mountains, forests, and oceans made each one of us too. What’s more, we are declaring that this God hasn’t stepped back from what he has made; no, he still delights in sustaining it.
We can take great comfort in knowing that the all-powerful creator and sustainer, God Almighty, is the one that we also call our heavenly Father. God cares for us; he knows what we need; and he will never let us slip from his tender care.
May your unfailing love be with us, Almighty God. Guide us to put our hope in you. Amen.
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