FAITH CAPSULE: God is mindful of all.
Psalm 8
God is mindful of us to care more than we understand or know. God cares with His deliverance and preservation for all. Do you understand how much He cares for you as His child? David’s curiosity questioned in Psalm 8:4-6, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet…” The curiosity of David revealed the truthfulness of God’s care for all His creation.
God’s mindful of man is the evidence that God is near to all. God is near to us but are we near to God?
Testimony of Deuteronomy 4:7 is the evidence that God is near, “For what great nation is there that has God so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him?” Jeremiah 23:23 confirms that God is near, “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord, “And not a God afar off?”
When God is near the presence of God is evident. However, sin will always keep a man from God that is near. Sin, not obeying God for correction to trust God will keep the sinner from God’s presence. Zephaniah 3:2 buttressed that sin will keep sinning man from His presence. It is written, “She has not obeyed His voice, she has not received correction; She has not trusted in the Lord, She has not drawn near to her God.”
God is mindful of all. God is near to us and cares for all that care to live life by His word.
God does have a position of deliverance for all with acknowledgment of His care and living life in the consciousness of His presence obediently in His word.
God was near to Elisha was the evidence of His care for his deliverance.
However, Elisha’s servant was not aware of the presence of God for their deliverance because he was not near to God with understanding to know God as Elisha do. Elisha was aware of God’s near which cares over his life. The reason for Elisha to see and commanded (with prayer) for the forces of God on his behalf was his knowledge of his near to God. The bible recorded, “So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.” (2 Kings 6:18) Living in the consciousness of God’s care is the evidence of faith; the expression of expectation for God’s divine protection at all times.
Prayer for today: Ask God with a desire to live life in the consciousness of His care for your life.