1 Peter 5:6-7 tell us, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
Peter tells us to remember without God we are nothing. “Humble yourself” he says. Realize that we are NOTHING and God is EVERYTHING. And then, notice the 2nd verse, “casting all your anxieties on HIM!, because HE cares for you!”
When we realize HE is in COMPLETE control of everything, and we humble ourselves allowing Him to HAVE that complete control of our lives, we have NOTHING to worry or be anxious about, because HE CARES FOR US.
Monday, I was talking with a good friend of mine who lives up in New York state. He was telling me how his son had to be put in a hospital because of a bad infection in his hand (they almost had to amputate the hand). He then told me that the hospital was over an hour away from his house, and he didn’t have a car that would make it that far. So, here his son was in the hospital and would be there all week, yet he wasn’t able to visit him.
Well, I thought and prayed about that all day. I tried to figure out how I could maybe find some way to get him to that hospital. This friend lives way out in the middle of nowhere, not close to a large town like Atlanta where there is ALL sort of transportation available. But I knew it was all in God’s hands.
Today I got an email from him telling me that they had moved his son to another hospital where he could be seen by a better doctor, AND that hospital was only 20 minutes away – he was able to visit his son!
I prayed expecting God to work it out for him to get to the hospital over an hour away, and God just moved his son to a hospital closer!! God took care of it! God can do anything! I was reminded of the verse in Genesis 18:14 that starts out – “Is anything too hard for the LORD?”
God DOES care for EACH of us, and the more we learn to trust Him and let Him work – the more we will be amazed at how awesome HE DOES work!
Casting all your anxieties on HIM!, because HE cares for you!