Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayerful attention to 1 Peter, chapter 5. 1 Peter, chapter 5, and reading
from our text, verse 7. 1 Peter 5, and verse 7. Casting all your care
upon Him, for He careth for you. 1 Peter 5 verse
7, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. The Apostle Peter in writing
to the scattered brethren and tribes, the people of God, He
desires to put into practice that which our Lord said to him
before he fell and denied his Lord those three times, when
thou art converted or when thou art restored, strengthen thy
brethren. I often like to think of that
aim, that desire that Peter had in these two epistles, it is And really that is what the Gospel
should be, to strengthen, to pour in oil and wine, to comfort
all those that mourn, to help the brethren when they, like
Peter, are brought into Satan's sieve, when they are tempted
and tried, when they are left to do things which, looking back
on them, fills them with grief and sorrow. like Peter who went
out and wept bitterly. And so we have in the epistles
here those things that are for our comfort and those things
which are directions, exhortations that are for our good. And our text is such one of those,
casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you." The meaning,
of course, is that anxious care. Predominantly, but really, all
our care. But what our Lord has in view,
in the inspired word here, is the same as what he taught on
the Sermon on the Mount, I would have you without carefulness. that we are to be careful of
nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, make
known our requests unto God, as Paul writes to the Philippians. And it is of that same way that
we are to not be like dear Martha, who was cumbered about much serving. Martha, Martha, thou art careful
and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful, and
Mary had chosen that good part which shall not be taken from
her. And so it is in this same vein,
this same way, that Peter writes, casting all your care upon him,
for he careth for you. and how many cares that we may
have, and I want to think in, before we come to some points,
to think of those cares that we may have, and certainly all
mankind has those things that burden them, and many times the
Lord uses such troubles and trials to bring a soul to Him, to awaken
a need. When man cannot help, when man
fails, when he's at the end of his tether, then he is brought
by the Spirit to look unto the Lord. Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. At this time we have much uncertainty
in our nation. that will be affecting the lives
of very many. Financially, it must be touching
nearly every household, and then when there may be thrown into
that perhaps an uncertainty of employment, uncertainty of the
means of earning our daily bread, and when mortgages increasing
power costs increasing, many things are changing in a way
that we haven't seen or haven't realized in this country for
some 25 years, I think. And certainly when we first came
over, then there had been a similar time. And we had people that
were living around us, those that were paying off a 30,000
pound debt, They'd fallen into arrears, the
bank had taken over the house, sold it over their head, negative
equity, and they were renting then, but they got this 40,000
loan, 30,000 loan, and nothing to show for it whatsoever. And
we can see those sort of times coming again, and it may be that
that is your care tonight not perhaps entered fully into it
yet but maybe see it in the future or see it on the horizon or maybe
it's not for us but our children and our loved ones and we wonder
how that they will fare and whether they will get by so we have those
cares we've just been through many cares of COVID and afflictions
and health cares They come upon us sometimes very expectedly,
and again with loved ones as well. And as years increase,
I often like to think of it as set forth in Ecclesiastes 12. We get the description there
of the body slowly being taken down, and it comes as a knock
first, like a gentle knocking from the Lord. when we need glasses,
or need hearing aids, or need crowns in our teeth, and things
like that. But then when you read that the
windows are darkened, that the sound of grinders is low because
the grinders are few, and that there is not the hearing of the
sound of the bird, and all of these infirmities, they remind
us that this mortal must be brought down to the grave, it must be
brought down. And more and more as I get older,
I notice things we haven't got, the youthful body we used to
have, and some vainly try all their days trying to patch it
up, and not wrong of course to get healing and health where
we can. But in the end, the Lord is reminding
us, this is not your rest, there is for the people of God eternal
mansion and you need a celestial body, you need an incorruptible
body for that. And yet these things can become
a great care for us, cares for ourselves, cares for our families. And many of our elderly friends
that we look after in our locality down in Cranbrook, you notice
how things that weren't a burden to them Maybe only a year or
two ago, now more and more a burden and a care. This is one of those
tanks that in one way will be needed more and more as we grow
older. But not only that, there's the
soul's care. And it is a blessed thing if
we have been quickened into life, that for the first time in our
life we have a concern for our soul. Where will we spend eternity? And how is it with us? How is it with our soul? Is it well with thy soul? And when sins become to be a
burden, that's not just at the beginning. You know, I find as
I go on that I'm remembering sins in my childhood, remembering
things that I did. They come back with painfulness,
and sometimes there's unexpected triggers and it will suddenly
bring back something that I did, something that I said, things
that I felt I've been pardoned, forgiven, and things that have
been done against loved ones and I know I've sought their
pardon, I've received it, and yet one cannot as well forget
it and the pain is still felt. And those, when we get low, those
sins rise up. And it is a care then, as to
are they dealt with? Are they forgiven? Are they blotted
out? Has the Lord atoned for them? Is it well with my soul? What of eternity? When we see
those, and recently I've been at the bedside of those who've
been taken as they breathe their last. the reality of seeing one
that you've had communion, fellowship with for many years and then
you see their lifeless body and you realize that soul is gone
and that must be us one day, we ourselves must depart this
body and in that sense it is right, it is good for us to be
rightly careful and prayerful and watchful over our souls. It is a good and right thing
to be exercised over our souls. But anxious burdensome care is
that which is counter to a soul seeking salvation through our
Lord Jesus Christ. We may have those cares for the
Church of God. The Apostle Paul, he says that
there fell to him the care of all the churches. No doubt that
was a burden, but he dealt with it in a way that he dealt with
his own thorn in the flesh, and own triumphs, seeking the grace
of God and the help of God. He says regarding his ministry
and compared with those others that ministered, I labored more
abundantly than them all, yet not I, but the grace of God which
was with me. And so he put his care into a
productive labor and seeking that grace and help of the Lord. What is specifically spoken of
against in the word of God is when those cares, they discourage
us, they turn us away from the Lord, they open our ear to the
devil and shut it to the Lord, and they bring us into despondency
and darkness of mind. And then it is that those cares,
and really before the cares get to that stage, we have this exhortation,
casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you." And sometimes
we might feel we're starting down this slippery slope of getting
more and more care, more and more burdened, and more and more
troubled, and it seems we're getting further and further away
from faith, and further and further from trusting in the Lord. Well,
this text is a text to bring us back, and it's to remind us
again what the course of action must be in not just some of our
care, not just temporal cares, or not just spiritual cares. Sometimes in the churches we
contend to take everything and we immediately go to the spiritual
application of it, and we lose the temple. You think of the
parable of the Good Samaritan. And many times we can, maybe
in preaching, and we go straight to a spiritual application of
it. But our Lord was teaching, who
is our neighbour? And a very practical sermon and
help of those that are our next door neighbours, whether they
are believers or not, helping them. And we mustn't pass over
that and just speak on spiritual things. And so on the other side,
we mustn't think, well, because my care is a temporal care, and
is a care that seems to fall out of the scripture comforts,
I cannot apply this or cannot see this as a help to me. No,
it is all your care, whatever that is, not just some of it. Casting all your care upon Him,
for he careth for you." Well this evening I want to propose
three questions and they'll be our three points to answer concerning
this, our text. And first is this, who? Who is it that all our care is
to be cast upon? Now text says, casting all our
care upon Him, for He careth for you. Who is the Him? Who
is the He in our text? Secondly, how do we know that
the exhortation is for us? Now text says, casting all your
care upon Him, for He careth for you. How do we know it is
applying to us? Because unless we make that clear,
then the devil comes in and he says, that is not to you, that
is to someone else. So we want to answer that question. And then thirdly, how? How are
we to cast all our care upon him? If we are to Obey this exhortation
if it is to mean anything at all to us. We need to know how
we are to put it into practice, casting, how are we to cast all
our care upon Him. I want to look then firstly at
who, who isn't. Well, if we look back to the
fourth verse, we read this word, and when the chief shepherd shall
appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. The chapter begins with a word
to the elders, a word to the under-shepherds. then goes to
the Chief Shepherd, and this is why of course we read John
10 of our Lord Jesus Christ testifying that He is the Good Shepherd. So though we have in the immediate
word before our text, humble yourselves therefore under the
mighty hand of God, that is whom That is who we are to cast our
cares upon, the Mighty Hand of God, but we also are to know
Him, remember Him as the Chief Shepherd. And it's good for us
to actually realise this. If we were just to take the one
verse and say the Mighty Hand of God, we don't get the the
caring picture of the Chief Shepherd. When we put the two together
we have a Chief Shepherd that is mighty and that his hand is
the hand of God. That he is able to do exceeding
far above all that we can ask and all that we can think. This
is who we are exhorted to cast our care upon. Then we have in
verse 10 another description of who it is we are to cast our
care upon, and that is the God of all grace. The verse reads,
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal
glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while,
make ye perfect, strengthen, establish, strengthen, So we have another picture of
Him, the God of all grace, the free and sovereign grace of God,
the unmerited gift of God. Grace cannot be earned. Grace is kindness when kindness
is not shown in return. One of us don't know something
of what was said of Hezekiah who was healed of his sickness.
but then he showed the ambassadors round out of the pride of his
heart and we read that he did not return according to the benefit
received. We are very poor ones to give
thanks or to walk in a way that reflects the goodness and kindness
of God to us. When we are mindful of that we
need to be reminded that this is the God of all grace, not
the God of all kindness, but the God who gives kindness when
those who have shown kindness to, they don't return that to
Him. How many times the disciples,
we might say, let down the Lord, or walked in a way that would
have been so grieving in relation to our text. Remember, When their
disciples were in the ship, and the waves were beating over the
ship, and the Lord was asleep in the hinder part of the ship,
they came and they woke him and said, Master, carest thou not
that we perish? What a sly against the Lord. And the Lord had shown him many
times his care over them, their bodies, their souls, but they
Well they have to say this, and with Peter of course in denying
our Lord and Saviour those three times, that count it wise blessing. How the Lord exhorts His people,
if they are to walk in the way that He walks in, you do not
render evil for evil. And how the Lord for His people,
He hath not dealt with us after our sins deserve. The mercies of the Lord, the
grace and kindness of the Lord is made manifest here in the
context as to who it is that we are to cast our care upon
Him. There's one last thing that really
emphasizes who it is, and it is He that careth for you. He that careth for you. And that is a very sacred, very
blessed thing to realize, to know that this One in whom we
go to cast our care actually does have our care at heart,
that He does care for us. Now if a child was to have a
care and trouble and they went to the parent, it would be a
comfort to them to know that that parent loved them, that
that parent did care for them, that that parent had the ability
to do what they wanted them to do, and that actually, though
they had done many things to grieve that parent, that parent
would not hold them against them. They would still appear for their
help and in their extremity and in their need. I wonder how many
times we really meditate and think of our God. The devil will
say he's a hard taskmaster. The devil will say that he is
an austere man and that he is not one that will hearken or
listen to us. How often he will stop us, turn
us away. What a solemn thing it was that
Absalom did to David his father. When people were coming, coming
to the court, they would have come to David, but Absalom stopped. He said, there's no one deputed
to hear your case. I will deal with it, I will hear
it. And that person was stopped from coming, and he stole the
hearts of the people of Israel. May we not be hindered in casting
our care and coming to the Lord. So the answer For our first question,
who is it? Who is it? It is the mighty hand
of God, it is the chief shepherd, it is the God of all grace, and
it is He that careth for you. But our second question asks
this, how do we know that the exhortation is for us, that we
are the you in the text. If we go back to John 10, and
we think of our Lord Jesus Christ as the true shepherd, and that
which we read this evening, the Lord says that he knows his sheep,
and his sheep they know him. And he gives one very specific
token of them being His sheep, and that is that they hear His
voice. One of the very first things
the Lord does when He calls a people is to open their ear. The way
the Lord keeps, preserves His people, the way He instructs
them in the doctrines of grace, in all the ways of righteousness,
and the ways of salvation is through the Word of God. Faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. But if you'll
like me, my own regeneracy, I used to just shut off when the Word
of God was read. I heard the words outwardly,
I never heard it inwardly, it never meant anything to me at
all. It is a blessed thing when the
Holy Spirit opens the ear The first time we begin to hear not
just words but the Word of God. Remember what was said by Paul
of the Thessalonians, he received the Word of God which he heard
of us, as it is in truth the Word of God and not the Word
of man. And how vital that that is, unless
we should just take that for granted. You know solemnly there
are those churches that will say, oh, that part of the Word
of God, that's just Paul, that's just Peter, and they don't ascribe
it all to the inspired, infallible Word of God. And so, if that
is their outward profession, how can they ever receive or
hear the Word of God? The first thing then is actually
be brought to esteem. Every Word of God is pure. David, he says, thy word have I hid in my heart,
that I might not sin against thee. Jeremiah, he says, thy
words were found, and I did eat them. They were to the joy and
rejoicing of my heart. To the word of God we must come. It is a token of being a sheep,
a token of being one of those that the chief shepherd cares
for, when we have had our ears open to hear the Word of God. You might say, well, how do I
really know that? We spoke of some of the cares
of being our sins. The law was given that sin might
abound. You can't know your sins, not
in a real way that touches your heart and that really brings
you in as a guilty sinner, except by hearing the law of God. The Apostle Paul, he was a Pharisee,
of the Pharisees, until the law came. He says, I was alive without
the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. And that Pharisee first heard
the word, and it convicted him and brought him in as a sinner. The Hymn writer says, sinners
can say, and none but they, how precious is the Savior. And it
is absolutely vital. that we be convicted of our sin,
feel our sin, know that we are sinners, if forever we can be
saved, sin must be a burden that the Lord removes, a burden He
carried, a burden that He bore even unto death. And so one of
the marks of the you and the your, casting all your care upon
Him, if your care is those cares that are brought about by reading
the Word of God, and the Word of God has read you, and found
you out, and brought you in as guilty, then you cannot say you
haven't got an open ear, because that very Word has entered, has
had an effect, has brought you into concern, and brought you
into that very care that is spoken of here. You have there in verse
10 that we've already referred to, the reference to calling,
the God of all grace, who hath called us. So those that are
the you and those that are the your, they are those that have
been called. We know our election by calling. The Lord says that no man can
come unto me Except the Father which sent me, draw him, and
I'll raise him up at the last day." I wonder if we know the
sacred effect of the drawing of the Holy Ghost. You know,
you can't see the power between a piece of steel and a magnet,
but you can feel it, and it makes the effect, it draws. And it
is a sacred thing when we feel that drawing to the word, drawing
to prayer, drawing to the house of God, drawing to the people
of God. Like dear Ruth, she clave unto
Naomi, and she was drawn towards the people of God. The Lord said,
he that receiveth you, receiveth me. And he that receiveth me,
receiveth him that sent me. It's a beautiful linked together
there. The disciples being let go, they
went unto their own company and the exhortation to the people
of God and really it will be the effect, come out from among
them, touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you, you shall
be my sons and my daughters, said the Lord Almighty. The calling
by God's grace If, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us, how much more being reconciled shall we be saved through his
life? The Lord commands his love toward
us in that he died for us. Greater love hath no man than
this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. And he says, ye are my friends,
if ye do whatsoever I command you. And it is a blessed thing
if we have been drawn to the Lord, we are concerned to do
that which is pleasing in His sight, to walk in a way that
is right in His sight. And a lot of the trouble that
we have and the burden of our heart is that we're so unholy,
unrighteous. But then if that is the case,
We come under that blessing, blessed are they that hunger
and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. And we have these marks of the
your and your you in the context here of those that are called
to cast all your care upon him for he careth for you. Now there's
an answer here as well. To an objection, well, if the
devil might say, if you're a child of God, you shouldn't have care. You should have faith. You should
be trusting in the Lord. You shouldn't get into a low,
despondent place. Then why is the need for an exhortation,
if these things are just automatic? If this word was never to find
out, what are the people in the ditch? and despondent and low
and bowed down with much care. Why would there need be of that? We mentioned Martha, an example
of having care even with the Lord's presence there. We mentioned
the care of the disciples that they were going to be swamped
with the boat and the Lord was in the ship and yet they had
this care. that just because we are the
people of God and called that we won't get into these low places
and so full of care and so full of trouble that sometimes you
can come into the house of God and you can sit through a whole
sermon and you haven't heard it because you're so thinking
about your care or I've had it in taking the reading at home
and sometimes it has happened in the house of God And I read
the chapter and I get near to the end of the chapter and I
suddenly think, I can't remember reading that. Have I read over
that? And I've read automatically. And I find it amazing how minds
can do it. To read audibly and no one in
that room has ever said anything or picked anything different,
my mind has been right away thinking about other things. And sometimes
it is just care and burden, and I've just read automatically.
Not heard a thing of the Word of God that I have read myself.
And care, it is a great thing that just hinders and stops us. and prevents us from the Lord.
It's a good reason why it is that we're exhorted here, casting
all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. I do want to,
in looking at the your and the you, to really go as low as I
could, not to discourage any from casting all their care upon
Him, because how easy the devil would discourage the people of
God. But if the Lord has given you a hearing ear, that your
care, part of it, is because of the Word of God, then you
come under the Word that is here. You know, we at Cranbrook give
out Bibles to many people, we speak to many people, and I've
spoken to many people As regards their souls, they have no care
at all. I impressed upon them the worth
of their soul, eternity to come. I've had them say, so what you're
saying is, that if I go on in the way I'm going, then I'm on
the way to hell. I suggest you are. And off they
go. They're not interested in hearing
anything more. They have no concern. They don't
really believe the word that is spoken to them. is a very
different thing when the Lord brings us into concern. And we
have a real concern. Our ear is opened and in addition
to cares that all our fellow mortals have, we have something
that is great and that is the care of our soul. Remember in
John 6 where our Lord had fed the multitudes and they had followed
him the other side of the sea. And he said to them, ye seek
me not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the
loaves and were filled. Labour not for the bread that
perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life. And he made that very clear.
They had care for their bodies, They'd care to go where they
could get a miraculous meal, but to think the person that
made that bread to multiply as he did, he must be eternal God. He has the words of eternal life.
He can provide for my soul. They had no concern for their
soul. And how is it with us? Through
the concerns of our soul, He will eclipse the concerns of
our bodies. And the Apostle Paul, he said,
in all the things he went through, I count not my life dear unto
me. And I think what a wonderful
thing in that, how often those of us in the ministry, and if
we were to street preach or speak to those in the street, We're
thinking, well, we better watch what we say. If we say this,
then this is going to happen. And the Apostle Paul could easily
have said, if I say this, I say that, I'm going to be apprehended
and be cast into prison. And especially today, in all
of the political correctness, how easy it could be a temptation
of modifying. I'll say something a bit different.
And what is it we're trying to preserve? Our bodies, our reputations,
our lives, our livelihood. Very easy that can be the uttermost
concern instead of our soul. But nevertheless, if we are in
a position that that is part of our care, that again is what
we are to cast upon the Lord. Casting not some, but all your
care upon Him for he careth for you. I hope in looking at answering
the question as to who is the you and your, that you may find
that this word is for you, that you are one that the Lord has
opened your ear, has called you, has brought you to hear his voice. We can add just another. It says
here, for he careth for you. Now I would be very wrong, and
I believe some of you would as well, if you were to look back
over your life, if I was to look back over mine, and say the Lord
has never cared for me. Then he says here, for he careth
for you. Not he has cared for you. That would be true. It is true
in my case. that He is in ongoing care. He
careth for you. And we are not to cast away previous
care, watchful care, that we have realized the Lord has provided,
preserved us, kept us, helped us. As many times I am very sure
that the Lord's care over us and over me has been when I have
not discerned it. I've used this illustration here
before, but if we had a blind person and we had a road that
was full of potholes and we had to guide that person along that
road, if we were to hold our arm and we got to the other side
and we'd stumble from one hole to the other hole The person
had nearly fallen but hung on to the arm, got to the other
side and said thank you for all that care. That was wonderful
to be brought over that really rough and holy road to get the
other side safely. That blind person would be mindful
of what that road was like and the care in having such a guide. But what if you had a different
type of guide? And they skillfully guided the
blind person round every hole. They never put their foot wrong.
They never suddenly dropped into a hole. They got the other side
and said, well that was fine, I didn't really need you. I could
have, that was a nice smooth road. I could have got through
myself. And I think how often that is
so with us. We might get to the end of a
journey or things in our lives and we think, well we didn't
really need the Lord's help there at all. And our prayers were
not so needed, those urgent crying prayers, but little do we know
the Lord's care that was over us, and watchful care. Though that is not cast away,
what He has already done, He that has held me hitherto shall
hold me on my journey through. I want to look then lastly at
how how we are to cast all our care upon Him. The principle by, of course,
is by prayer. By prayer and supplication make
known your requests unto God. And it is in that way that we
come before Him and pray and cast those cares in prayer before
him. Sometimes at home we may go over
things that we haven't cared over as husband and wife and
discuss many of these things and then we have our family worship.
Sometimes we will enumerate all those things and other times
we'll ask the Lord, Lord thou has heard all that we've gone
over, all that we've spoken of, care all the things that we're
worried with. Take these things, manage them,
deal with them for us, help us to leave them with thee. And
that is what is set forth here. If we cast something, we're letting
go of it. That's a very distinctive thing,
isn't it? You can't throw something or
cast something without letting go of it. And this is what is
set before us here. But you know, we've sung in our
middle here, the many changes that people of God go through.
And if you're like me, you'll find you're casting those same
cares in prayer again and again, day after day, sometimes hour
after hour. Well, there's things that are
joined with this. This verse doesn't stand in isolation. And so we have before it the
exhortations to humility. Sometimes our care can be really
rooted in pride. We're worried about our reputation. We're worried about ourselves.
And if we're brought down in the previous verse to humble
ourselves under the mighty hand of God, then that deals with a lot of
that care. the thing that's happening, that
unexpected thing that's come along, the thing that we say,
how can this happen? It's man that's brought it, or
what shall we do? And then to be reminded, well,
this actually is, not by chance, the mighty hand of God has brought
this into your life. Humble yourself before him. And he gives a direction in dealing
with that care is to actually bow before the Lord, humble before
the Lord, instead of thinking, well, how shall we get rid of
it? How shall we get out of it? How shall we avoid it? Think,
this is the hand of my God. This is the hand of my shepherd.
This is He who is chastening me with a mark of sonship. So humility is very closely joined
with casting our care upon him. Soberness, the verse is following,
be vigilant because your adversary the devil has a roaring lion
walketh about seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast
in the faith. Some of those cares may very
much arise from how the devil is tempting and what slides he's
putting on the Lord or what construction he's putting. And so it's not
in isolation that the exhortation is to cast our care, to pray,
to bring these things before the Lord. What a blessed thing
it is that as we come, we come to a throne we come to a throne
of grace, we come to a mercy seat, a blood-sprinkled mercy
seat, and we realize that this One to whom we come, the Chief
Shepherd, is He that in the Tent of John that we read, is He that
laid down His life for the sheep, who shed His precious blood to
redeem them, who paid the debt that they incurred, And when
we come before Him with our care, then to get that little glimpse
of Him. Now if we were to cast our care
upon one naturally, it makes us to think of that person we're
coming to. And this text should do the same.
That we be mindful, especially where our care is our sins, our
burdens. I think whose burdens did Christ
bear in Gethsemane? Whose burdens, what burdens did
he bear as he went to the cross? Why did he suffer? Why did he
die? And he is coming with him with
our care. We get a view of him who suffered
in our place. One who could not care more.
when He laid down His life and suffered, bled and died for the
sins of His people, so that they would be delivered, so that they
would be saved, so that they would not be lost. Our Lord in John 10 spoke of
the security of God's people. They were in His hand, they were
in His Father's hand, and no man was able to pluck them out
of my hand." Paul, when he speaks to the Romans in Romans 8, he
finishes with that persuasion that nothing was able to separate
us from the love of God which was in Christ Jesus. And as we
come to the Lord to view Him, to view Him bearing our sins
in His body on the tree, to view the man of sorrows acquainted
with grief, to view Him in our place. What a blessed thing to
then feel our care melt away as we see Him and we realize
that care that He has for us to the uttermost to lay down
His life for the sake No man taketh my life from me. I lay
it down in myself. I power to lay it down. I power
to take it again. This is He we come to, and this
is how we come, and we come in that way that brings us to His
dear feet, and to see Him in that situation and that place
where He offered Himself, that ransom, and paid our debt and
bore our sin, fasting all your care upon him, for he careth
for you. May the Lord add his blessing.
Amen.