Do you know that God cares for you? Psalm 9-11

Psalms 9:10 (NASBStr)

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You,

For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

There is a reason to trust God.   Plan and simple, from a selfish point-of-view, God takes care of us.   He will not forsake us.   He will defend us.   We ought to trust God because we believe His worthy of our praise and our consideration.    However, we are rooted in sin.   So, based upon our own bent for self-preservation, we have a desire to rest in God because He cares for us.   God knows this about us.   That is why Peter says "casts your care upon Him for He cares for you." (1 Peter 5:17).    God wants us to rest in Him because we can "rest" in Him.     All this is to focus, however, on the second line of the above Hebrew poetry.   The first line gives us the reason we can rest in God's abundant and constant prayer:  God cares for those who "know" Him.    The writer is not telling us that God cares for those who reject Him, is obscure to Him, or search for Him in the darkness of their sin.   God cares for those who "know" Him ... those who have a relationship with Him.   When we have an intimate relationship with God we can be assured that He will take care of us.  God does send common grace on everyone.   He sends the rain on the good and the evil.    Yet, He has special grace for those who believe in Him and trust Him and establish a relationship with Him.   It is in that relationship we both receive care, experience care and feel that care.  Let's rejoice in the fact that if we can have assurance in God's care for us because we have a relationship with Him.