Cares

'Tis the season for peonies.  Isn't this one pretty?  What wonders creation holds.  


When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.  (Psalm 94:19)  Does your heart have cares?  Does it beat?  


If you have children, you have cares.  If you dwell in a broken, aging body, you have cares.  If you live in a house, you have cares.  If you live in a tent, you really have cares.  If you drive a car, pay bills, work a job, tend a garden, you have cares.  Why?  Because we live in a post-Fall world, a world that is broken, old, and affected by sin.  


So think of your cares this hour.  What are you doing with them?  Hugging them to yourself, feeding them, strategizing over them, ignoring them, denying them?  God has a better answer to that question:  listen to His consolations, let them cheer your soul.  Watch Him at work.  Meditate on His words in Scripture.  Remember that He governs all things for His own glory and your good.  Your good!  


You are not alone!  For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage. (v. 14) 


For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him.  (Psalm 103:11)