GOD IS EVER CARING!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2023.

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 the frailty of our human condition. His mercy takes everything into account. God cares for us as a father lovingly cares for his children. 

God will deal with us compassionately. God is so caring that when He forgives us our sins, He separates them from us and doesn't even remember them anymore. As east and west can never meet, so is the symbolic portrait of God's forgiveness and of our sins. We need never wallow in the past, for God forgives and forgets.

Though there are times when God’s children have to be disciplined, God would not continually do so day by day. Because of His forgiveness and mercy, He does not punish His people with what they deserve for their sins. Their rebellion will justly deserve death, but because of His mercy, He only disciplines. 

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,” 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 for God's intervention through His Son, Jesus Christ! In His caring, and merciful nature He saved mankind from the calamities of disobedience by sacrificing His Son for us.

What our first parents did is even done today by some of us. Some people willingly swallow the lie from the devil that we cannot trust our Heavenly Father. Some of us 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.

God’s mercy continues forever. It continues throughout the generations of those who have committed themselves to be obedient to the laws of the covenant that He has established with us. He is so caring and unchanging that He will never break His covenant with us (Psalm 89 vs 34).

God is so caring that He allows us to cast all our cares upon Him. Therefore, carrying our worries, stresses, and daily struggles by ourselves show that we have not trusted God fully with our lives. It takes humility, however, to recognize that God cares, and to admit your needs, and let God take care of you. Sometimes we 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. Our loving Father will never leave us according to His promise. But the enemy of our souls, the devil, wants us to doubt God, and to question His ability. And undoubtedly, that is the trick the father of lies has used from the beginning of human history.

However, to experience the totality of God’s care, put Him first in all things in your life. In Matthew 6 vs 31 - 33, the Scripture states, "Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' Or 'What shall drink?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." 

To "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness" means we should put God first in all things in our lives; we should turn to God first for help, to fill your thoughts with His desires, to take His character for your pattern, and to serve and obey Him in everything. Though other things and desires, all compete for priority in our lives, and any of these can quickly bump God out of first place if we don't actively choose to give Him first place in every area of our lives.

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, that I may give all for You and put You first in every area of my life, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!