He Cares For You

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." (1)

The message all through the Bible is that God loves us. He cares, protects and teaches us the way to a more abundant life here and to eternal life hereafter. He gives us warnings to protect us from the evil in the world. "For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more. Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, but it shall be no more. But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace." (2)

In the meantime, God bids us to look to Him for wisdom, understanding, truth, justice, mercy and to cast all our care upon Him, for He loves us with and everlasting love and assures us of His loving care for us.

When you consider that He created us, He came to live with us to demonstrate to us and teach us the way of life and to reveal the character and love of the Father to us, and to adopt us into His family as His very own children and "heirs-heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ" (3), then you must realize that there is something most wonderful in-store for us.

Happy is the one whose hope is in the Lord, Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. Who gives food to the hungry and freedom to the prisoners. Who executes justice to the oppressed and opens the eyes of the blind. Who raises those who are bowed down, and watches over the strangers. Who relieves the fatherless and widow. Who loves the righteous and turns the way of the wicked upside down. (4)

Jesus prayed for you, "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one; I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me." (5) And His promise to us is, "And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (6)

1. 1 Peter 5:6, 7.
2. Psalm 37:9-11.
3. Romans 8:17.
4. Based on Psalm 146:5-9.
5. John 17:20-23.
6. Matthew 28:20.