WFW: He Cares...

In previous WFWs, we've been talking about fearing the Lord and what that involves. One thing that I have noticed is that trust goes hand-in-hand with fearing the Lord. Hence, today, I'd like to focus on one of my favorite Scriptures... 1 Peter 5:7, “Casting all your anxieties on Him for He cares for YOU.” Sometimes, a situation may seem too small to bother God with, but we should always remember that God cares about the little things, too. He said that He cares about the sparrows, so how much more does He care for us? At other times a situation may be too big for us, but with God nothing is impossible. When things go wrong or seem too overwhelming, this Scripture reminds us to give it to God, and let Him take care of it; He will work it out because He cares for YOU. Romans 8:37 states, "Yet in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." Therefore, if a situation seems overwhelming, we "overwhelmingly conquer" through Him, as one translation says. I'd like to share a Bible commentary on 1 Peter 5:7. (I found it a while ago, but I can't remember where.) It speaks volumes, and makes this verse mean so much more:

“He condescends to regard the wants of the meanest of His creatures. It is one of the glorious attributes of the true God, that he can and will thus notice the wants of the mean as well as the mighty; and one of the richest of all consolations when we are afflicted, and are despised by the world, is the thought that we are not forgotten by our heavenly Father. He who remembers the failing sparrow, and who hears the young ravens when they cry, will not be unmindful of us. "Yet the Lord thinks on me," was the consolation of David, when he felt that he was "poor and needy," (Ps 40:17). "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up," (Ps 27:10)…. What more can one wish than to be permitted to feel that the great and merciful Jehovah thinks on him? What are we--what have we done, that should be worthy of such condescension? Remember, poor, despised, afflicted child of God, that you will never be forgotten. Friends on earth, the great, the happy, the noble, the rich, may forget you; God never will. Remember that you will never be entirely neglected. Father, mother, neighbor, friend, those whom you have loved, and those to whom you have done good, may neglect you, but God never will. You may become poor, and they may pass by you; you may lose your office, and flatterers may no longer throng your path; your beauty may fade, and your admirers may leave you; you may grow old, and be infirm, and appear to be useless in the world, and no one may seem to care for you; but it is not thus with the God whom you serve. When He loves, He always loves; if he regarded you with favor when you were rich, He will not forget you when you are poor; He who watched over you with a parent's care in the bloom of youth, will not cast you off when you are "old and gray-headed," (Ps 71:18). If we are what we should be, we shall never be without a friend as long as there is a God.” [Ps 55:22 – “Cast your burdens upon the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be moved.”]