Because He Cares for You

Luke 12:6-7, Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Though in our moments of temptation we may choose to forget God, He does not forget us! Even as we are called to fear Him (see last post), Christ reminds us that we are valuable to God who concerns Himself to know the very number of our hairs. If God, being so great, will condescend to know so much about lowly me, how then can I not devote my life to knowing Him? Yet we humans think we are so important that everyone ought to know about and care about us––even our God! And we spend so little time outside of our self-preoccupied bubble. What wonders we would find if we looked up from our navel-gazing into the wondrous, mysterious face of God and spent the rest of eternity searching Him out!

I was just now struck by the full and blessed weight of the little phrase at the end of I Peter 5:7–– "because He cares for you." Why would, why should God care for us? He has nothing to gain from His relationship with us but grief and suffering. Yet He has chosen to enter into this relationship with us regardless of what it costs Him. Far from trying to avoid the troubles we bring Him, He urges us to "cast our cares on Him." WHY? "Because He cares for you."

What kind of Being is this who would care so much for those who care little for Him and who would bear all the burdens of those who spat in His face? This God, our God and our Savior! And He cares for us!