Even the very hair of your head is numbered. Pastor T.D. Jakes once illustrated that there’s a difference between your hair being counted and numbered. When counted, it simply means God just knows what the total number is. But being numbered means He knows each one of them by name and He’s aware of the exact one that falls to the ground. Wonderful!
God cares!!! Ephesians 1:4 NLT – Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. The manner in which Paul described God’s love for us – His care by adopting us into His family – His plans for us – His kindness and mercies by redeeming us through His son, Jesus Christ is quite remarkable.
Luke 11:9 AMP “Ask and keep on asking, and it will be given to you, seek and keep on seeking and you will find, knock and keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you”. Later in that chapter, Jesus asked, which father gives a stone when his son has asked for a loaf of bread or a serpent for a fish. If evil as we are know how to give good gifts, how much more of a good and loving heavenly father. If we ask, seek, and knock persistently he will give us the best. That’s who He is – a caring father.
Rick Warren explained, “Can you imagine God considering any problem too big? It’s all small. There’s nothing too small or too big for God”. You may be doubting if your problem can be resolved or fixed. Or if God is capable of making a way in that big situation you’re in. Don’t fret. Don’t doubt Him. He can and He will. He is concerned about every detail of our lives. Right from the most minute to the biggest of them all. They are all the same in size for Him.
Nothing is impossible for God (Luke 1:37 CEV) When I consider these words and I concatenate it with the fact that He cares for us and that we can ask and keep on asking until our joys are full, then it sends a glint illumination that we have an extremely caring father in God. Are you grieving? Are you in pain? Are you hurt? Tell it over to our most compassionate father. He cares!
He cares so much about us that He made us (mankind) in His own image. Have you pondered? He could have made us like animals – without a soul – probably eat grass and wither away someday. Nevertheless, in His word, we read, have you considered the fowls of the air, they don’t sow or reap but God takes care of them. The lilies of the field don’t toil or spin but grow. The grass of the field: have you wondered how they get greener with little or no interventions?
Aunty Tope Alabi in one of her songs – Ta Lo Dabi Re explained that while an earthly father truly loves a child, it will get to a certain point, if the child becomes too heady, troublesome, unyielding, and disobedient, the father will leave the child to face the menace of the world but God will never ever leave His own children. That’s how much He cares. He never gives up on us. Man’s faithlessness will not affect or nullify His own faithfulness.
If God clothes, provides, feeds inanimate and animate objects that have no soul and have not been created in His own image, how much more will He do for those of us whom He carefully created. The problem is simple: we’ve lost sight of why He had made us. How do we return to that original purpose? Matthew 6:33 CEV “But more than anything else, put God’s work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well”
This is the most amenable action that any individual can do for themselves: returning to the maker’s original plans for one’s life. Using the maker’s manual (the bible) as a map in navigating through life. You know, studying the bible helps you understand the extent of love and care of the Heavenly father. It helps you to know the benefits and entitlements entrenched in His care.
Hey, Have you given up or think you’ve drifted too far away from your maker? There’s hope. Yes, if you can genuinely repent of whatever sins have severed you from God and His purpose for you. He would receive you unto Himself and give you utmost fulfillment in life that nothing/no one can give. He does truly care!!!
God bless you.
EGC ’21
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