Over the past twenty years of my ministry, I have had several come to me and state, “I feel like I am all alone; no one cares for me; I don’t even believe God cares about me.” My initial response to these person’s dilemma is, “Dear friend, you are not alone; there is one who definitely cares deeply about you and His name is God.” Though this is the truth, I clearly realize that unless you get to the source of the person’s anguish, this truth brings very little comfort. And if truth be told, there may have been a time in your own life where you felt that way (even if it was for a brief moment in time).
Now you might ask, “How do people get themselves to this point of feeling destitute?” Life’s circumstances are often the driving factors. One could have lost a loved one, a best friend, a job, recently experienced a failed marriage, or has been diagnosed with a disease (whether treatable or terminal). However, often times many of these are symptomatic issues and not the source. Many times the source of the aforementioned circumstances is due to spiritual troubles one may be experiencing, and the circumstances are merely the byproduct. To begin with, if a person does not have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, there will be no true joy, peace, happiness in their life. Subsequently, the person’s life appears to be crumbling all around. Though they may paste on a “happy face”, they are internally drowning in sorrow; feeling destitute. To solve this problem and to turn things around, the individual needs to realize that God loves you so much that He sent Jesus Christ to die in your place so that you might live eternally.
John 3:16 states,
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Why did Jesus have to die? The answer is provided in the following Scriptures.
Romans 3:10,
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
Romans 3:23,
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Romans 5:12,
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
But, the Lord will set your feet on solid ground if you will by faith repent of your sins and ask Christ to save you.
Romans 10:13,
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
It may be that you have been feeling destitute due to drifting away from the Lord.
So for a moment, let’s take a deeper dive into God’s caring love for you and me. The Scriptures clearly teach the following: 1) we were made in God’s image; 2) He knew us before we were conceived in our mother’s womb; 3) He personally knows us as individuals; 4) He cares deeply about our well being. Now note the Scriptures.
Genesis 1:26-28,
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Job 31:15,
“Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?”
Psalms 119:73,
“Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.”
Matthew 10:30,
“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”
1 Peter 5:7,
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
Matthew 6:25, 31, 32,
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.”
I pray that these words have demonstrated that God deeply cares for you, and that you will reflect upon them often.
