Settled

 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. – 1 Peter 5.10

 

Tied into the previous thoughts is this great and precious promise about God will do S we learn to cast our cares on Him. He is the God of all grace calling us to eternal glory and the day is coming when He will bring us into that glory.

 

 But in the meantime, He wants to do something for us. God wants use to be mature and established and strong and settled while we are. We get that way as we learn through these struggles and learning to cast our cares on the One who cares for us.

 

God tells us that if we ever let swallow our pride and cast our cares on Him instead of trying to do it and we resist the devil’s attempts to keep us from trusting God that He will

 

Perfect us

Stabalise us

Strengthen us

Settle us down to live for Him

 

We have a God of promise who is greater than the devil. The question we must ask is whether we are going believe the great deceiver or if we are going to believe the God of all grace.

 

God says He cares for us. The deceiver tells us that we need to do it ourselves and too often we need to carry our own carking cares because really God couldn’t be bothered.

 

Who loves us and who hates us? Who does good and who does evil?

 

We can live in care-filled turmoil or we can live mature, stable, strong, and stable lives casting our cares on the One who can do something about it.

 

He does care – and He will give us all we need if we can trust that He cares.