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Topic: Who Cares "Cast all your anxiety on Him, for He cares for you." --1 Peter 5:7 In these troubled times, we all need to know that somebody cares. I love this Bible verse because its promise is so simple and forthright. There is probably no verse in the entire Scripture that I find more assuring and comforting. When I reflect on the recent natural disasters and man-made strife in various neighbouring countries, I ask myself what our brothers and sisters in these places are going through. Are they thinking that God has abandoned them, or that He is punishing them for sins unknown? Faced with such loss and anguish on a national and personal scale, it would be perfectly understandable for even the strongest Christian to doubt God and to say like the Psalmist: " no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life " (Psalm 142:4). When we are in pain and nobody around us seems to want to help, that somehow causes us to feel that even God has abandoned us. The Scripture reminds us in many places that God cares for us. In Isaiah 43:1 and Exodus 33:17, we are told that God knows each of us by name. Not only that, but He also knows everything about us--our character, weaknesses, struggles, desires, hopes and fears. And if He even keeps track of every hair on our heads (Matthew 10:29-30), how much more would He be concerned with the major issues that we wrestle with? Indeed, God loves us even more than we can imagine. Whenever we need reminding that He cares, we need only think upon the cross of Calvary. It was there that Christ suffered and died to save us from our sins and eternal separation from God the Father. Every Christian should keep this fact closest to his heart. Coming back to 1 Peter 5:7, another version says "cast all your cares on Him, for He cares for you". I was fascinated by this word play--that the word "cares" is used to mean both our anxieties as well as God's response of love and concern for us. It tells me that God's intervention is equal to every situation that we find ourselves in. We are His children, and there is nothing that happens that has not first passed through His hands. If we would but trust and obey, we will see His goodness manifested in every detail of our lives. This is the unbreakable promise of our God who cares.
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