“God doesn’t care.”

This is a phrase I have been pruning from my vernacular. It has grown to be a common phrase amongst even the most mature of Christians.

“God doesn’t care what church you attend. He cares about your faithfulness.”

“God doesn’t care what job you have; He just cares how you work.”

I myself said in a sermon earlier this year on Acts 2: “God doesn’t care about your age, but will freely pour out His Spirit on the young and old alike.”

While all these statements touch on the truth, when we look at the Scriptures, I don’t believe we could ever characterize the Triune God as care-less in any form.

We serve the God who pays attention to our cries. (Psalm 5:1-3) We serve the Lord who remembers and looks after us. (Psalm 8:4) We serve the supplicating Savior who prays for and advocates for us before God the Father. (John 17:20-26; Hebrews 8:1-6)

How could we ever say that the God who feeds the birds, clothes the wildflowers, and fixed the boundaries of the earth does not care? (Matthew 6:26-30; Job 38:5) How could we speak of the God who, before the foundation of the world, loved us to the point of death on a cross as reckless or careless in any of His attributes or ways? (Ephesians 1:4; Philippians 2:8)

Perhaps I am being dogmatic on what some view as semantics. Yet, as believers who should be truth-tellers of the God of truth, shouldn’t we be all the more careful how we speak of the counsel of God?

God cares about what job you have.

He cares about what music you listen to.

He cares about the choices you make in life.

He cares about YOU!

What better comfort is there than that in our ever-increasingly careless world?

God cares.