The LORD Sees, The LORD cares

Are you troubled? Are you overcome with grief, fear, and sorrow? Are you questioning where your next meal will come from? Do you hear the nations rage and shrink in fear?

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,
And are accounted as the dust on the scales (Is. 40:15).

When you weigh yourself, are you worried about the dust on the scale? No! It’s irrelevant. And so, we are reminded:

All the nations are a nothing before Him,
They are accounted as less than nothing and emptiness (v. 17).

We may not know what will happen or how we will get through, but we serve He who does. We serve the One who “stretches out the heavens like a curtain” (v. 22).

If we are down in despair and do not know where our help will come, we must lift up our eyes and see (v. 26a): Who created these? Who numbered the stars? Who calls them all out by name (v. 26; there are some 100 billion stars in our galaxy)?

Thus, why do we say, “My way is hidden from the LORD, He does not see me, He does not care” (v. 27)?

Our LORD says,

Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and to Him who has no might He increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint (vv. 28-31).

O’ LORD, our God and Father, we wait on You, we trust You. We know that You see, that You care.