Cast Your Cares Upon Him!

Cast: Throw or fling, deposit, throw down
Cares: Worries, pains, anxiety

We should always cast our cares upon the Lord, because when we spend time worrying, we are belittling God and exalting ourselves. When we doubt God it's like we're saying that He is incapable of handling our situations and as a result, we have to hold on to our problems until we can fix it ourselves. Trust me when I say, God knows exactly how to fix any issue or situation that comes your way. In fact, He had a solution before you ever had a problem. My friends, God is able to do everything, and we are not able to do even the slightest thing without His guidance. We must start being obedient to 1 Peter 5:7, "Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you."

Carrying around burdens and being worried about every single thing will eat up all of your energy and weigh you down. You'll eventually get to a point where you seem like you are making tracks, but in reality, you are getting nowhere. Matthew 10:29-31 tells us that not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it (do you know how many birds are in the sky?? That's a lot of birds to keep up with)! The scripture also tells us that the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So we shouldn't worry or fret! Anyone who's THAT detail-oriented can certainly keep up with any minor issues we might have!

Surely you and I are more valuable to Him than many sparrows, right? The Living Bible version of that scripture says simply "Cast all your cares upon the Lord, for He careth for you." Fortunately for us, our God's heart is so tender toward His children. Just as ours is with our own children. Most of the time, we love it when our children have enough confidence in us to come to us when they need help. I mean - talk about having a tender heart! We tend to melt when our kids need us and we will often go out of our way to meet their needs when we can.

Think about how God changed things for Hannah. Hannah had no children and the word says that, "...she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore" (1 Samuel 1:10). She could have kept all that inside of her, but Hannah knew that her help would come from the Lord, so she cast her cares on Him. He heard and answered her prayer by giving her the male child that she prayed for. Hannah's story lets us know that there is no reason for us to be weighted down and that our cares should be cast, not carried. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved" (Psalms 55:22).

The way we cast our cares on Him is by coming humbly before God and by willingly giving Him our situations. And whenever those little situations come back to worry us - and believe me, they will - we must simply say, "thank you Lord for this situation, you are the head over it, and you have it completely in control." We must believe and have faith in our merciful heavenly Father and He will strengthen us, help us, and uphold us!

With all that said, let the Church say Amen... and AMEN!