No Other Rock

Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. ~ Peter 5:7

Note: This devotion is from October 3 and 4

This word of the Holy Spirit through Peter has been a precious comfort to many a believer. But, as its position in the structure of the epistle shows, it is meant to become most of all precious to Christians who are on earth during the intensified tribulations at the end fo the present age. The epistle runs in three movements.

First, from chapter 1:3 to 2:10, we have the LIVING HOPE and what goes with it. Second, from chapter 2:11 to 4:11, we have the PILGRIM LIFE and how to live it. Finally, from chapter 4:12 to the end of the epistle, we have the FIERY TRIAL.

Unless our inward eyes are impaired by a strange astigmatism, the signs are surely around us that the present age is nearing its end. What we saw happen in the last two world wars and what is going on in world affairs currently is certainly enough to make us wonder what awesome evils that are yet to be set loose on earth. But no matter what that is, we need have no fear. “He never fails.” The “fiery trial” has been anticipated and will be overruled. We may go into the future without alarm. The Holy Spirit Himself breathes divine reassurance through our test – “Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.”

Today, I pray that you and I will fear not.