“TEAC total care hotline,” read someone from the owner’s manual of a TEAC Digital Stereo HI FI System, and I was not only listening, but I asked for the manual to read it myself.

“For operational difficulties, service requirements or general enquiries call 8.30 am – 5.30 pm Monday to Friday TOLL FREE,” is also written in the manual, and the phone number is given of course.

Do I ever like to hear and read about Total CARE.

In the Bible we are reading also about Total Care. Please listen to these four promises:

HOTLINE

1. “Cast your CARES on the LORD and he will sustain you; …” (Psalm 55:22).

2. “He [The LORD] CARES for those who trust him, …” (Nahum 1:7).

3. “Cast all your anxieties on him because he CARES for you” (First Peter 5:7).

4. “After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and CARES for it, just as Christ does the church – ” (Ephesians  5:29).

Does JESUS CARE?” is a hymn by Frank Graeff. You should read the four verses of the hymn and receive a blessing. I am quoting here verse four:

“Does Jesus care when I’ve said good-bye to the dearest on earth to me,

and my sad heart aches till it nearly breaks-is it aught to Him? Does He see?”

And here is the chorus:

” O yes, He CARES, I know he CARES! His heart is touched with my grief;

when the days are weary, the long nights dreary, I know my Saviour CARES.”

“‘and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour me,'” it says in Psalm 50:15.

I have never called the TEAC hotline, – the phone number given is only for Australia, and I am in New Zealand – but it seems that I call the Lord Jesus Christ all the time.

And I am so glad that the number is never engaged!