1 Peter 5:7: "casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you."
The word here "casting" is not a throwing but a definite act of the will in committing to Him our worries. The word "care" is anxious care, perpetually worrying. Finally, the word "cares" means, "concerned with our welfare."
Sometimes we find ourselves worried sick about things we have no control over. So, we read this passage, go to God, and give it to Him, only to take it back right away, in a few minutes, hours, days, etc. But if we are going to be free from worry, we must cast our anxious care at His feet.
Many times we find ourselves saying, "God, don't you care?" Which is like saying to the sun, "Don't you shine?" We need to remind ourselves often that He cares for us.
Sometimes we don't see the sun, but it is still shining. He is always concerned with our welfare. That means that sometimes He desires for us that which we may not desire for ourselves.
I have found over the years that everything, without exception, that I worried about either did not happen, or was wonderfully worked out by God.
Whether we worry or not, God will work it out. How glorious to know freedom from worry. It only comes from casting our cares on Him, because, after all, He cares for us. We have His Word on it.
2 comments:
Thanks, Randy. My 2 cents (with inflation, at least a buck!): Not worrying and just relaxing in His care is different than the kind of surrender that is a kind of depressed giving up because you feel you have no choices and are a pawn--"uncle!" I think sometimes that is the point we get to sometimes, when what God wants from us is an intentional placing of our cares in His capable hands, knowing it's not just that He wins, but that He has our best in mind.
Well said EC, well said.
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