God isn't only our Creator; he is also the Sustainer of our being. God is faithfully involved in keeping everything going that he started in the beginning.

Some of us were raised in a family with parents who cared for us every day. Our mother may have done the laundry, made the meals, read stories to us, and tucked us in at night. Our father may have assisted in those tasks, and together they guided us through the confusing changes of adolescence and upheld the family as a loving team. How worthy of praise they are, and how blessed by God.

Some families may not have had the same experiences. But still they have enjoyed blessing, as Psalm 68:5 indicates, for God is "a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows."

Recently a new type of literature for young people has appeared, putting ancient mythical gods in a modern setting. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, for example, tells of Perseus, whose father, Poseidon, left his girlfriend in the lurch to raise their child as a single mother in Manhattan. This mythical Poseidon was not worthy of glory and honor, not worthy to be entrusted with power.

How wonderful to know that God, our faithful Father, loves and upholds us daily. He never lets us down.