EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
SUBJECT: GOD IS EVER CARING!
Memory verse: "Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." (First Peter 5 vs 7.)
READ: Psalm 103 vs 8 - 14 & 17:
103:8: The Lord is merciful and gracious. slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
103:9: He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever.
103:10: He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities.
103:11: For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
103:12: As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
103:13: As s father pities his children, do the Lord pities those who fear Him.
103:14: For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
103:17: But the mercy of The Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him. And His righteousness to children's children.
INTIMATION:
God has deep interest in all that concerns you and I. We are fragile but God's care is eternal. Too often we focus on God as Judge and Lawgiver, ignoring His compassion and concern for us. When God examines our lives He remembers our human condition. He cares for us as a father lovingly cares for his children. Though there are times when His children needs to be disciplined, but God would not continually do so day after day. His mercy takes everything into account and He deals with us compassionately. Because of His forgiveness and mercy, He does not punish His people with what they deserve for their sins. Their rebellion would justly deserve death, but because of of His mercy, He only disciplines.
God is so caring that when He forgives us our sin, He separates it from us and doesn't even remember it. East and west can never meet, and this is a symbolic portrait of how God separates us from sins that He has forgiven us. We need never wallow in the past, for God forgives and forgets. It’s normal to think that struggles caused by our own sin and foolishness are not God's concern. But when we turn to God in repentance, He will bear the weight of those struggles, including our sins. It takes humility, however, to recognize that God cares, and to admit your needs, and let God take care of you.
Our loving Father will never leave us; that is His promise to us. But the enemy of our souls wants us to doubt God, and to question His ability. Obviously, if you told a big enough lie long enough very often, people would believe it. And this undoubtedly, is the trick the father of lies, Satan, has used from the beginning of human history. In the Garden of Eden our first parents were set up to live happily ever after, having been placed in a paradise-like setting by a Loving, Caring, and Personal God. They had been given everything they could ever want, but with only one small restriction: "Don't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
We easily will say today, 'What a simple innocuous request and easy to obey.'
But when they were enticed by the “tempter,” the devil, they fell into his trap of questioning the love and goodness of the One from whom they had only experienced good. What a monstrous lie! But they bought the lie hook, line and sinker! And mankind has been wretched ever since, but thanks be to God for His intervention through His Son, Jesus Christ! It’s noteworthy that sometimes we do the same these days; we willingly swallow the lie that we cannot trust our Heavenly Father. We allow our earthly hurts from parents or others to distrust our view and our understanding of God. Our many feelings, emotions, fears, and human experience effectively block a clean perception, consequently stifling all truth about Him.
Pray that God will help you not allow negative human relationship and experience interfere with having a close relationship with your Loving, and Caring Father, and hindering your enjoying the never ending and limitless benefits of His care.
Prayer: Abba Father, You are so caring and loving that You gave Your only Son, Jesus Christ, to die for my sins. What a supreme sacrifice You made for me! Forever You remain my God. Endue me with the spirit of love, compassion, trust, and complete obedience to You, Who has given all for me, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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