If you have ever had a severe injury or illness, you have probably appreciated the caregivers who helped you through the difficult time. Caregivers do exactly what their name implies. They give care. Since we are all more or less children of weakness, we all need caregivers. Who is the ultimate caregiver?
Is a nurse who gently brings medical treatment to you with skill and compassion the greatest caregiver?
Maybe a doctor, who has obtained knowledge through many years of study, is the ultimate caregiver?
How about mothers who pour all their hearts into the care of their young ones?
How about fathers who work their fingers to the bone so their families have what they need?
Perhaps angels that are mightier and more intelligent than the brightest men are our greatest caregivers? God knows we need care so much that He has set an angel to watch over His own. “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Hebrews 1:1414Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (Hebrews 1:14)). They may care for us in many ways of which we are totally unaware. Angels are mighty, but there is one far mightier than they, and He cares for you very much.
GOD’S CARE
Have you ever considered that God is the ultimate caregiver? First Peter 5:7 reads, “Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” Aren’t those some of the most beautiful words you have ever heard?
He cares for you. When you were born, He was there. “By Thee have I been holden up from the womb: Thou art He that took me out of my mother’s bowels: My praise shall be continually of Thee” (Psalm 71:66By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. (Psalm 71:6)).
As you have grown up, He has cared for you. He has watched over you every moment of your life.
Also, consider that He is the One who has brought every human caregiver into your life. Each caregiver was a gift expressly from Himself to you. The mother’s caress is an expression of His love. Your parent’s toil is God working through secondary causes to provide for you. The knowledge a doctor possesses was imparted by His wisdom. God has given all these caregivers the ability to care for you, and He has placed them in your life.
If they are a human caregiver, you can be sure they have faults and failures. Sin and selfishness have left a dent in the entire human race. They often fumble when it comes to the tasks God has appointed to them.
Human caregivers fail, but God never fails. God is the ultimate caregiver.
He knows that you are a spiritual as well as a physical being. He knows that you are a person that has gone far from Him into paths of selfishness and sin. “All we like sheep have gone astray” (Isaiah 53:66All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6)). Without His intervention, the damage sin has done in our lives will never be undone.
This one life is not all there is. After it is over, eternity begins. Those who die in their sins will spend eternity in hell, where there will be endless weeping and gnashing of teeth.
God knew our lost condition. He doesn’t want a single soul to perish in hell. He cared for us so much that He opened His heart and gave His only begotten Son.
He loved us even when we were sinners. “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)).
If God was willing to give His Son for our sakes, do you think He will withhold some other good when it is in our best interest to have it? “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:3232He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)).
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
When He created us, He didn’t ask our permission to do so. He just did it. But unless we come to Him and bow our hearts and receive His forgiveness, we will never be saved. It is a decision each individual must make for themselves. Some may encourage us, while others may try to discourage us. But it doesn’t change the truth — no one else can receive Christ for us.
Will you come by faith to the One who cares for you so much He was willing to give His life to put away your sins? Jesus is His name. Has anyone ever cared for you as much as He has?