Cares

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 Peter 5:6,7 NKJV

This is not one of those blanket verses to cover lots of people in different situation. I see this verse as personal from God to you or me. One to one, and directly to the point where you need the caring. There is usually an emphasis on the caring God, and that is true, but the verse first asks that you ‘humble yourself’, and then comes the caring. I wonder if God needs us to stop being proud and haughty, doing things our own way, before He can show us clearly that He cares. We may know in our head that He cares, but maybe we need to ‘feel’ it in our heart too.

Caring is something we don’t do well at all, even in our church family, but we do have a prime example to follow. The trouble is, we have to cast ALL our cares on Him, otherwise we will never know just how much care our God can and does supply. If we only cast some of our cares on Him, we will only know some of His caring. On a human level, we are fortunate if we have someone or some folks who care for us even partly, and maybe infrequently. We cannot always count on a caring spirit from our friends, but this verse tells me that we can count on God to care all the time. Just as well, isn’t it?