Can I ask you a couple of questions? Have you ever felt forgotten? Like someone who should’ve remembered you, they forgot about you.
Have you ever felt unseen? Like you are invisible to someone who’s supposed to see you.
What about left out? You look to your right and left: everyone is receiving, participating, and enjoying something you are not. Like someone who should’ve included you, didn’t.
Have you ever felt uncared-for? Like no one cares about you. I would consider this the worst feeling to feel as if you have no one to care for you, to walk around with the belief that no one cares.
When our situations become hard, when life becomes difficult to manage, and when we find ourselves in places we didn’t think we’d be. Problems begin to appear, and the burdens of being alive and existing in this world overwhelm us. We find ourselves in one of those thought patterns:
I have been forgotten
I have been left out
I am invisible
No one sees me
No one cares
With the world’s weight on our shoulders and everything going against us, we wonder: is there anyone on my side? Anyone for me?
Then we lose ourselves to worry, pain, and grief. We turn to anger, to sadness, to fear, to depression, to anxiety. There goes our welfare and our well-being. If no one cares, why should we? What a sad, hopeless, broken place to be.
Maybe this was where the writer found themselves when they wrote Psalms 121.
Suppose you are sad, hopeless, or broken. If you are one of those things or all three, I want to tell you that there is a God who sees you, and He has created you to have joy, hope, and be whole.
When your situation causes you not to be able to care for yourself, He will. He will care for you.
Psalms 121 says strength comes from Him, and He created the Heavens and the Earth. When we cannot find help here on Earth, we look to heaven.
Heaven is committed to your care and your well-being.
Your God cares for you! More than that, your God is committed to you! He’s so committed to watching over you that He does not sleep. He is so committed to your welfare that not even the Sun or the moon, His creations, can hurt you!
He guards you against evil. He guards you constantly. There isn’t a moment that He is not protecting your life; that is how committed He is to you. Not sometimes. Not some days. Now. Forever.
He cares for you, and it is insulting to Him to believe that we are forgotten, unseen, left out, or uncared for.
Lean on Him. He will take care of every situation you have, and He will take care of you. Cast every burden, every pressure unto God. He is committed to you.
