He cares for you...

Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you: He will never let the righteous fall... Psalms 55: 22

King David was in great distress when he wrote this psalm. This psalm is an earnest prayer for his relief, and an outcome of his problems, difficulties, sorrow, fear and great terror on account of his enemies and was grieved by the treachery of a friend. Probably the remembrance of his sin in the matter of Uriah added much fear to him. He prays to God that He would show His favour to him during this time. He was fully surrounded by his enemies. He had no other hope except on God who called him, chose him, anointed him and made him king over His people. He assures himself that God would appear for him against his enemies in due time. With that affirmation he was filled with renewed hope and confidence. That’s why he wrote, “Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you.”

He encourages us to trust in God in all the circumstances. In every trial let us call upon the Lord and He will save us. He will hear our prayers and He will never blame us for approaching Him again and again during times of fear, worries, struggles and problems etc. He will always welcome us. David had thought all were against him; but after prayer and trusting upon the Lord, he found there were many with him, more than he supposed; God raised his friends and faithful for his help and to stand with him. All the glory from his triumphs over enemies and situations, he gives to God. Even whenever we feel we are alone, hopeless, remember that it is He that rises up friends, and makes them faithful to us.

Friends, look to Christ who bore our sins, shame, curses, pain, suffering, sickness and disgrace on the cross. He dealt with our greatest problem of sin by offering His Life, then why will He not deal with our other smaller problems, worries and fears (Romans 8:32). Whatever we would ask Him or desires. He will give us. We must leave it to him to give it in His own way and time. We must commit our fear, worries, struggles and problems etc to the Lord; He will do what is best for us (Eph. 3:20). To cast our burdens upon God is to rest upon His providence and promise. And if we do so, He will carry us in the arms of his power. He will never allow us to be shaken by any fear, worries, struggles and problems etc.

May God bless you.
Rev. Varinder Kumar