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God Cares for His Children

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 53.

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God Cares for His Children

By F. M. W.

EVERY age in the history of the church furnishes abundant evidence of God's tender care for his trusting children. The Scriptures of Truth abound with many instances of this character. A notable one is found in the experience of the prophet Elijah. Compelled to flee to a solitary region in order to escape the wrath of Ahab, who was seeking his life, Elijah was fed daily by the ravens. When the brook from which he drank dried up, the Lord sent him to Zarephath, near Zidon, to the house of a poor widow, for sustenance, the last place where he would naturally go for assistance in time of distress. Here for a full year the Lord daily replenished the oil and the meal for the support of the prophet and the widow and her son.
The later history of the church of God abounds with incidents similar to this, and even in our own day we find God still reaching out his hand to answer in truly miraculous manner the needs of his trusting children. One of our sisters writes of the way in which the Lord has especially supplied her needs. She says:—
I was in feeble health, and my flour was gone, and there was no money to buy more. So I went to the Lord in prayer, and asked him to open the way for me and to supply my need. The Lord gave me the assurance that he would do this. When I went to the flour sack, which was nearly exhausted, to get some flour to make my bread, my mind was very deeply impressed with the Scripture account of the manner in which the Lord supplied Elijah and the widow. I could not understand why this scripture was impressed on my mind; but when I returned to the sack again to prepare more food, I found the same amount of flour that was in the sack before I had taken any out, and again my mind was impressed with the same scripture. It was all of two weeks that the flour lasted, until there was money to buy more; so I know that the Lord will provide.
God would have us trust him in the little things of life. The greatness of his power and of his love is shown not so much in that he takes account of the great things in his universe. We naturally expect the great God of heaven to do this. But when we realize that our Father in heaven is so great and so loving and so thoughtful that he stoops to take account of his children individually, and of the little details of their experience, surely we can see the exceeding breadth and depth of his great love for us. God would do more for us if we trusted him more. It is our privilege to seek his help in all the little affairs of life, and to realize that all that concerns us concerns him, for he loves us and cares for us. “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”
F. M. W.