Does Anybody Care?
Have you ever felt as if you were unloved, insignificant, and that no one cares. I think all of us at one time in our lives have entertained these thoughts. When you know, despite any circumstances or troubles, that there is someone that loves you, it keeps hope alive in your heart.
It will keep you going during the darkest of times. I want to share a time when I went through some dark and fear filled days.
“I found myself at a point where I didn’t know whether I was holding a new rope or had lost my horse. There before me on the table, was a divorce decree, and eviction notice, a letter of intent to repossess, and a doctor’s report of a debilitating condition in my neck. These all came to me in the time of a few months. It looked impossible to overcome these circumstances, and I became spiritually paralyzed. As I lingered in this condition, I opened myself up for satan to bring me an understanding that he wanted to get in me.”
I knew better than to allow these thoughts to control me. It was at a time when I was growing in the Word and being used in service to others. But I let it get to the point that I began to question why God was letting this happen to me. I felt like one of the four guys from the television show “Hee Haw” sitting on the milk barrels and singing, “Gloom, Despair and agony on me, deep dark depression excessive misery.” I bounced from pillar to post in self-pity for a while until one night, I was having supper with a brother that I counseled with often. He said in response to me telling him what I was feeling like, “Did you ever wonder why they didn’t do something different?”
BAM! In my spirit, scriptures began to come to me. I looked at him, a big smile on my face, “I gotta go brother!” He knew what was happening on the inside of me. I was experiencing real deliverance. “Well, go brother.” He prayed for me with this verse.
Numbers 6:24-26
The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.
That night I received corrections, instructions, and encouragement. The Lord gave me this for my situation, and I have encouraged others since with them.
“Son, I did not cause these things to happen so as to teach you a lesson, My Word and My Spirit will teach and guide you, be sensitive to My corrections when you turn off My path for you, NOTHING will separate you from My love for you.”
When God tells us to consider it immense joy in every trial that comes to us (James 1:2), it is because He wants to show Himself mighty towards us. (2 Chronicles 16:9) He wants to turn every trial or test into a testimony of His great love for His children. As He did with Job and with the exiles from Jerusalem, He wants to turn our captivity into blessing, no matter how impossible our situation may seem. He wants to turn it and bring us to things we could not even imagine.
We need to understand His great love for us by the value He puts on us. His love is so great that He sent Jesus to redeem us by dying on a cruel Roman cross. As a preacher once said, “God is not bad in business, He will not overpay for something.
When He paid for you with the precious blood of Jesus, He placed an extremely high value on you.” We need to say to ourselves every morning when we wake up, “God, I know you love me, I know I am highly favored, and I know You care about me!” And having paid the high price, He will not let anything happen to us.
Romans 8:38,39 NKJV
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Looking at these two verses like a contract, it would be perfect. Some lawyers may not like it because there ain’t any loopholes or escape clauses. But God had Paul write that way so that we become persuaded or convinced in a firm belief that we are the object of His affection. When we do, we will know just how valuable we are in the eyes of God. How does God look at us?
Deuteronomy 32:10 NKJV
He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
These two verses concerning “Apple of His eye” is usually translated pupil and is the most important part of the eye. It indicates something very precious, vulnerable, and requiring protection. What David was asking God to do was to cherish and protect him. That is what God will do for you and me!
Let me close with my testimony of what God did for me in my situation that I shared. Within a few months he restored me to a greater place and healed me of a C-spine injury. He restored everything that the enemy had tried to steal, PLUS! Then He gave me opportunities to tell others of His great love and care. There will never be a time when the Lord will leave you to drift in a sea of despondency, He wants you to come to Him. If the thoughts come that God doesn’t care, know that these are lies from the enemy designed to discourage and defeat you. When he brings these thoughts to you, lift your foot up and bust in the mouth with the Word of God.
1 Peter 5:7 NLT
Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.