What Concerns You, Concerns God
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. Psalm 138:8 (KJV)
The Lord will work out his plans for my life— for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me. Psalm 138:8 (New Living Translation, NLT)
The word concern, according to Merriam-Webster, is defined as marked interest or regard arising through a personal tie or relationship.
Because we’re in relationship with God, a Father/child relationship, God is concerned with us. I like to say it this way: “What concerns you, concerns God, and God will fulfill all that concerns you.” God will fulfill His purpose for you based on His everlasting, never-failing love and mercy; His covenant love.
Right now, God is working out His good plans and promises for us. He is personally involved in our lives. We’ve got God in our corner. He’s got our backs, and He backs up His promises with His power. What God promises, He is able to bring to pass. We see this in Romans 4:16-21.
Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. Romans 4:16-21 (New International Version, NIV)
As God kept and was able to bring His promise to pass for Abraham, God will do the same for us. God is working to bring His plans, blessings, and promises to pass for us.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ. In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, Ephesians 1:3-11 (New International Version, NIV)
These are our redemptive rights and God has given them to us. Cast your cares on Him, for He cares for you (I Peter 5:7) and stand still and see God’s salvation in your life. God will, indeed, perfect and fulfill that which concerns you because what concerns you, concerns Him.
