Cast Away

October 24, 2009 at 6:00 am (Stress)

I was spending time with the one and only Timmy G today and he led me to this verse.

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. NIV

It’s one that many of us have heard before, however, it is The Amplified Bible that makes it so much clearer and more confronting.

1 Peter 5:7

Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him. for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully. AMP

The reason for giving God all our anxieties is that he cares for us. He is the Lord of our lives, He is in charge, He is our loving ruler who cares for us.

And we give him our anxieties because He cares about us too. Not just in the way we care about our friends, or care about our pets, or care about our hobbies, though they all matter, God’s care about us is so much deeper, stronger, and truer.

God cares for us. Like a father cares for his son.                              Deuteronomy 1:31

And God cares about us like a husband cares about his wife. Ephesians 5:25

And so we know we can trust Him with our problems.

The Amplified also reveals the extent to which we cast our anxieties.

We give him all our care, all our concerns, all our worries.

Once

and

for

all.

We give God our life and trust Him to deal with it.

Too often I find myself repenting and then continuing to condemn myself. Or too often I put my trust in God only to stir myself into fretting moments later. When we give our cares to God its a one way street. We give it all to Him, never to take it back. Such is the power of the Cross.

Hebrews 10:9-10

Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. NIV

Jesus Christ walked this Earth so that not only would our sin be gone forever, but so that our stresses and our burdens would be in God’s hands once and for all. So that we may truly live in the blessed Peace of God.

Cast your cares onto God, once and for all, and let him take control of them out of his never ending love for you.

Stay Strong.