Posts Tagged ‘ Care ’
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
Isaiah 41:13, ESV
God takes care of us, first by His mighty right hand and also by His Church, the Body of Christ.
as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
Hebrews 5:6, ESV
Jesus Christ is our eternal God and High Priest who presents us to the Father, because He was our faithful Savior who understands us.
So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”
Hebrews 5:5, ESV
Jesus Christ became a human and made Himself a servant, and being a servant to the point of death and His ensuing resurrection has proven that He is the very Son of God who understands us and draws us to the Father.
He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.
Hebrews 5:2, ESV
Regular human priests and pastors (and all Christians) relate to all of us, because we are dealing with this life along with everyone else. Thankfully, we have a High Priest who knows us and welcomes us to God, because He overcame the things of this world as one of us.
Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You. Yours, Lord, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11, HCSB
We know that God is sovereign and all-powerful, so we can trust in Him to care for us and defend us when evil comes our way.
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Proverbs 19:21, ESV
We like to think we know what’s best for our lives, but God has told us through His Word what the best way to live is.
Micah 6:8, James 1:27
Acts 2:38, 16:31
Romans 10:9
Matthew 22:37-40
Matthew 28:18-20
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
James 1:27, ESV
In His mercy, God overlooks our man-made attempts to please Him. In His grace, He showed is what is right.
We should seek His righteousness and show mercy and grace to those who most need it.
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7, ESV
Crucify your worries, trusting in the One who cared enough to take them on Himself on the cross. Most worries come from trusting in anything but God.
Trust God.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Psalm 8:3-4, ESV
God created all of space, matter, and time, from the largest galaxy cluster to the tiniest speck of matter and beyond.
Yet, He watches over and cares for each of us.
Trust in Him.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:11, ESV
Our God cares for us and tends us. May we worship Him in following Him as He tends to all people by joining in His work.
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