Thursday | April 25, 2024
1 Peter 5:6-7:
So humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God…. Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you
St. Mark
God Cares for Us
I was reading this Scripture just as we were warned that a hurricane was coming our way. Humbling ourselves means facing the truth of our own limitations, that we are not in control. This invitation is to cast all our worries on God not just because God is all powerful but because “he cares for you.” That God cares for us, is with us with great personal love in all our anxieties, has throughout my life, again and again, helped to calm the great storms of escalating fears inside me.
We had no great damage from that hurricane. Yet even if we had, (for in the past, sometimes what I feared did happen), being assured that God’s care was with me was a blessing beyond words.
Let us pray today for people who are experiencing great anxieties, that they may have some indication of God’s caring presence with them.
- Patricia Livingston
1 Peter 5:5b-14 • Psalm 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17 • Mark 16:15-20
