In 1 Peter 5:7 we read “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you”. God is caring for you and you can experience his care by handing over your cares through faith. We are commanded to be sober and be vigilant. One aspect of being sober and vigilant is to be humble. The bible says “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time”. The manifest sign of humility is submission to God and one to another. In the same passage we also read the warning for the prideful because the devil is roaming like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The second aspect of being sober and vigilant is to cast all your anxieties, worries and cares to God because he cares for you. If you don’t hand over your cares, worries and anxieties you will be burdened by them and can possibly become a potential prey for the devil. In this sermon we are going see how caring God is for you and for me.
Many times we don’t understand how caring our God is towards us. One of the reasons why we don’t hand over our cares to God is because we don’t understand how caring he is towards us. The first way in which we understand God’s care for us is to look at him through his creation. In Luke 12 we read “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barns; and God feeds them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? God is wonderfully taking care of his creation. He feeds them every single day without fail. If you ask why did Jesus begin to discuss about God’s care for his creation, we can find the answer in the same context. If you read Luke 12:13-21, “And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me”. To this Jesus started address “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”. “So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God”. So here in this juncture Jesus said “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”. We need to trust that we are handing our cares to such a wonderful loving and caring God. We can handle all our cares no matter how great or small it is.
Secondly, in order to handover our cares to God we need to understand that “Your Heavenly Father knows your needs of life”. In Luke 12:30 we read “For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that ye have need of these things”. Our Heavenly Father know our exact needs. Sometimes we don’t even know what our exact need is. There is a beautiful passage in Acts 3:1-8, where a lame man didn’t know his exact need, he thought his need was money to eat food. All the more he was seeking for his need in wrong places. He was seeking for his need in people’s mercy, in visitors of the temple etc. Sometimes we may be like this lame man seeking our needs in wrong places. When you handle your needs, you will be looking for them in wrong places. Maybe you might think your need is wealth, approval of man, getting famous, in marriage, etc. In fact, you may be crying like this lame man not knowing what your exact need is. The lame man’s actual need was to walk. God met that need supernaturally on that day. He was able to walk so that he will never beg to anyone any more. Likewise, God knows your actual need. He knows you more than anyone could know about you. In Matthew 10:30-31 we read “But your very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows”. No one knows the count of our hairs but God knows. He knows everything about us.
We have such a loving and faithful Heavenly Father. Why don’t we surrender all our cares unto him? The cares belong to us until we handover them to God. The Bible commands God’s children to cast all their cares upon him, for he cares for them. Let us make a decision to handover our cares to God. Once you handover your cares to God it belongs to him. God is caring for you! God bless!