Life is tough. Close friends die, politicians cheat, abusers prevail…and I’ve barely started. Genocide, starvation, unending wars…the list goes on. When I consider these things, I wonder if God cares. Is he really trying to help us out? Are we all alone? What is he trying to do to us? My emotions occasionally tell me he is, but the scriptures says otherwise.
- Ps 62:8: “…God is a refuge for us.”
- Hebrews 13:6: “The Lord is my helper…what can man do to me?”
- 1 John 5:14-15: “if we ask anything according to his will he hears us”</li>
- Matthew 7:11: “‘If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!’”
We get from those four scriptures the testimony of four people (David, the Hebrew author, John the Apostle, and Jesus) that God is on our side.
The testimony doesn’t stop there.
- Luke 12 tells us that God doesn’t forget sparrows
- Luke also tells in Luke 12 that God has numbered the hairs in our head
- Jesus encouraged his followers to relax by pointing the birds that survive despite not sowing, reaping, or gathering (Mt 6)
- Jesus later notes that the lilies grow without toiling (Mt 6)
So, now we have the testimony of nature—birds, our hair, and flowers—that God takes care of us and is interested in and familiar with the smallest details of our lives.
Of course, there are other testimonies (the sacrifice of Jesus being chief), but these testimonies should help me see that God isn’t disinterested. I need only look to other believers or nature to see that God is there and interested.