MORNING MANNA 4-7-22
JESUS CARES
“But Job answered and said, Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.”-Job 6:1-4
At a young age, Frank Graeff committed his life to serving God. He trained for the ministry and spent many years working with children and young people. He was noted for his positive attitude, so much so that one of his contemporaries nicknamed him the “sunshine minister.” Yet Graeff’s life was far from simple or easy. He struggled with serious health issues that would take his life at just fifty-nine years of age. While still in his thirties, Graeff wrote a hymn that expressed his confidence in God during times of suffering.
Does Jesus care when my heart is pained
Too deeply for mirth or song,
As the burdens press, and the cares distress
And the way grows weary and long?
Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares,
His heart is touched with my grief;
When the days are weary, the long nights dreary,
I know my Savior cares.
There are times when we are tempted to wonder if anyone cares. We may be let down by those on whom we depended most. That was Job’s experience. In his time of great suffering and loss his friends came, but rather than comforting him they accused him of harboring hidden sin in his life and being proud and arrogant. Job knew that he was suffering, though he did not know about Satan’s conversation with God that was behind his troubles, and he wanted the hurt of his heart to be taken seriously. When no one else cared, Job knew he could trust in God. “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him” (Job 13:15).
No burden we face is unimportant to God, and no tear we shed escapes His notice. – Daily in the Word
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
