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His Gentle, Loving Care, February 26
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter 5:7
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The Lord’s care is over all His creatures. He loves them all and
makes no difference, except that He has the most tender pity for those
who are called to bear life’s heaviest burdens. God’s children must meet
trials and difficulties. But they should accept their lot with a cheerful
spirit, remembering that for all that the world neglects to bestow, God
Himself will make up to them in the best of favors.
It is when we come into difficult places that He reveals His power
and wisdom in answer to humble prayer. Have confidence in Him as a
prayer-hearing, prayer-answering God. He will reveal Himself to you
as One who can help in every emergency. He who created man, who
gave him his wonderful physical, mental, and spiritual faculties, will
not withhold that which is necessary to sustain the life He has given.
He who has given us His Word—the leaves of the tree of life—will not
withhold from us a knowledge of how to provide food for His needy
children.
Some are always anticipating evil, or magnifying the difficulties that
really exist, so that their eyes are blinded to the many blessings which
demand their gratitude. The obstacles they encounter, instead of leading
them to seek help from God, the only source of strength, separate them
from Him, because they awaken unrest and repining.
Do we well to be thus unbelieving? Why should we be ungrateful
and distrustful? Jesus is our friend; all heaven is interested in our
welfare; and our anxiety and fear grieve the Holy Spirit of God. We
should not indulge in a solicitude that only frets and wears us, but does
not help us to bear trials.... He invites the weary and care-laden, “Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Lay off the yoke of anxiety and worldly care that you have placed on
your own neck, and “take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”
Matthew 11:28, 29
. We may find rest and peace in God.
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