HE CARETH | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 46.

HE CARETH.

“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.”

WHAT can it mean? Is it aught to Him / That the nights are long and the days are dim? / Can He be touched by the griefs I bear, / Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair? / Around His throne are eternal calms, / And strong, glad music of happy psalms, / And bliss, unruffled by any strife; / How can He care for my little life?

And yet I want Him to care for me, / While I live in this world where the shadows be, / When the lights die down from the path I take, / When the strength is feeble and friends forsake, / When love and music, that once did bless, / Have left me to silence and loneliness, / And my life-song changes to sobbing prayers, / Then my heart cries out for a God who cares.

When shadows hang o’er me the whole day long / And my spirit is bowed with shame and wrong, / When I am in fault, and the deeper shade / Of conscious sin makes my heart afraid; / And the busy world has too much to do / To stay in its course to help me through, / And I long for a Saviour, can it be / That the God of the universe cares for me?

O, wonderful story of deathless love! / Each child is dear to the Heart above. / He fights for me when I can not fight, / He comforts me in the gloom of night; / He lifts the burden, for He is strong; / He stills the sigh and awakes the song; / The sorrow that bowed me down He bears, / And loves, and pardons, because He cares.

Let all who are sad take heart again; / We are not alone in our hours of pain; / Our Father stoops from the throne above / To soothe and quiet us with His love. / He leaves us not when the storm is high, / And we have safety when He is nigh. / Can it be trouble, which He doth share? / O, rest in peace, for the Lord does care!

—Anon.