God Really Cares

…God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved); and hath raised us up together…

We didn’t deserve, and we still don’t deserve, anything from God except his wrath and judgment – BUT, THANK GOD, WE ARE GIVEN HIS LOVE; HIS MERCY AND HIS GRACE INSTEAD!

We were “Dead Men Walking” as we traveled this life, moving headlong into that great precipice called death and eternity without God. There was no turning back, no way out, no escape from that terrible sentence. We could not do one thing to reverse the power of sin that held sway over our lives. Not only could we do nothing about it; we cared not to do anything about it within ourselves, until the mercy of God reached down and began to draw us back to Him in love.

Then we respond to that drawing and God, so loving and eager to receive us back, extends his grace to us and through the blood of Jesus washes and cleanses us from sin and reinstates us into our position of being a Child of God just as the father welcomed the prodigal son back home in the 15th chapter of the Book of Luke.

…And made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus…

Because God, our Heavenly Father, really cared for us, He has fore-ordained that we should enjoy the wonders and beauty of Heaven and that we should dwell with Him forever and ever. Oh what a wonderful God we have! What a privilege to be able to love Him and be called a Child of God!

How many of us, this morning, are resting with God in heavenly places? How far below the place of peace and joy do we live? The Children of God often seem to be in despair and act as though there was no answer and there was no hope for their deliverance out of the hand of Satan, but it is not God’s fault that we are not resting in Him for He has already paid the price for our peace and joy at the Cross.

That is not to say that we shall never face hardship or trouble. God’s love, mercy and grace are supplied to us, as we need them to help us to overcome those troubles so that even in the middle of them we can be at rest in Jesus because we know He has it all under control.

How many times do we lay down to rest in the night, when all seems lost and the blackness of the night adds to feeling of despair, and we wonder where God is? Friend, God is just as close as a whisper or a prayer. He is never far though it may seem that He is a million miles away.

When there is no money to pay your bills and no way possible to make it to the next paycheck – God cares. His mercy will see you through. Somehow God will make it work out. He has never failed me yet and He will never fail.

When sickness and pain rack your body and the doctors have been unable to do anything to ease the sickness, that’s when the caring and loving God steps in and showers us with His mercy. Its often hard to see the Hand of God as He moves upon the pain and sickness but He always gives us the grace we need to be an over comer in every situation.