The One Who Cares for Us
By A. C. Gilbert
THE Creator has a watch care over all the works of His hands, animate and inanimate. Nothing is too small or insignificant to require His attention. The busy little sparrow, so often in our way, is an object of special mention by our heavenly Father as worthy of His notice. The grass that carpets the earth for the pleasure of man, is decked with myriads of flowers, in varied hues and designs, by an almighty hand, which bears a burden for our comfort and joy. In all the perplexities that try the soul, there may be found the sustaining grace that flows from Him who asks us to cast all our care upon Him, for He cares for us. 1 Peter 5: 7. He knows the feelings of the disappointed heart. He hears the plaintive cry for help. He enters the home of poverty. He stoops beside the bed of sickness. Yes, in all the contradictory experiences of life, He is present to help; for we have not a Saviour who “cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.” He was “in all points” tempted and tested as we are to-day. But He rose above these “infirmities,” and gained the victory which gave Him the preëminent position He now occupies in our behalf. The victory He achieved, He offers to us. Heb. 4: 15, 16; 1 John 5: 4. God is leading the way, though it be through the pathless forest of difficulty. “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” Isa. 43: 2. Two boys were conversing about Elijah’s ascending to heaven in a chariot of fire. Said one, “Wouldn’t you be afraid to ride in such a chariot?”—“No,” was the reply; “not if God drove.” In these troublesome days, more childlike faith and confidence in God is needed.