God Is on My Side

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

June 11, 2025

God Is on My Side

Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.

1 Peter 5:7 

Recently, in our morning prayers we read Psalm 56. Two verses in this Psalm always catch my attention:

8You keep track of all my sorrows.

    You have collected all my tears in your bottle.

    You have recorded each one in your book.

 9bThis I know: God is on my side!

I wonder if the Apostle Peter was remembering Psalm 56 when he wrote the line in First Peter quoted above.

The bottom line is God does care for us. God is very much aware of our tears. God is most definitely for us. And, as I have noted before, if God is for us, who can stand against us?

My Takeaway: As I seek to stay in God’s grace for today, I want to be more focused on God who is for me, on God who cares for me, than on me fulfilling my own agenda. With God on my side, why do I waste time and energy worrying? 

Sē’lah

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First Think, Then Pray

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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