Principles to Remember in Crisis: God knows and cares about your crisis

In today’s post we continue on Principles to Remember in Crisis. Today’s principle: God knows and cares about your crisis.

Recently in the first post of this series, we revealed that the Apostle Paul provided two vital steps to persevere in trials or crisis. The first step, in a world with false teachers, false belief systems, and false hope, the Apostle reminds us to stand firm in what we know. The second step is to hold fast the traditions which we have been taught or learned from the Word. We simply identified those steps as: (1) Remember key principles and (2) Obey practical steps to encourage our perseverance.

This is our third principle to remember.

God knows and cares about your crisis (Matthew 10:27-31).

At times it can seem as if God does not know about our particular crisis. It is almost as if God has His eyes shut, is not listening, or does not care. You may need to hear and believe today this simple truth: God knows and cares about your crisis. Many Bible passages teach this (see below); however, let me highlight one primary passage first. Jesus, while talking to His disciples, said:

“Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew 10:27-31)

In this context, Jesus is challenging the disciples before He sends them out to evangelize. He describes for them impending persecution and trials. In His effort to provide them hope, Jesus declares that God, in fact, does know and care about them. Basically, Jesus teaches that since God takes the time to know the seemingly worthless sparrow and since God knows the number of hairs on our heads, then Jesus’ followers can be assured that God is more aware of one’s circumstances than the individual in the middle of them.

God’s eyes are open and paying attention.

The Lord watches from heaven;
He sees all people.
From the place where He lives
He looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.
He is the one who forms every human heart,
and takes note of all their actions (Psalm 33:13-15, NET).

The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
Keeping watch on the evil and the good (Proverbs 15:3).

In a particular message from Hanani, the seer, to Asa, king of Judah, Hanani describes God to him:

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him (2 Chronicles 16:9).

God does see you and care for you in this crisis. He works on your behalf for His glory.

King David recognizes God’s complete awareness of everything about him (and us!). After describing God’s intimate knowledge of everything going on about him – his whereabouts, his thoughts, his words, his situation, David exclaims:

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You. (Psalm 139:17-18)

Asaph realized that in his worst situation, God was always with him. His summary says it all, “The nearness of my God is my good!” (Psalm 73:28, SRS).

God knows. God sees. God listens. God is with you.

Back to the initial passage above, basically, Jesus teaches that since God takes the time to know the seemingly worthless sparrow and since God knows the number of hairs on our heads, then Jesus’ followers can be assured that God is more aware of your circumstances than you are in the middle of them. Yes, He knows and cares about your crisis because, most importantly, He knows and cares about you.

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