People
of God, look at the first part of the verse – “cast” means “to throw upon.” That’s a little different from the picture of
someone taking their troubles and laying them at Jesus’ feet (where we can pick
them up again at will). No, Peter says to
throw our cares on Him. Well, we know
Jesus isn’t here in the flesh today, so here’s a visual/literal thing that you
can do. Get a print of Jesus, and write
your troubles on little sticky notes, and prayerfully put them on the
print. Put it in a place where you will
see it every day, several times a day. Then
when you think about it, instead of asking God to take care of it, just worship
Him. The combination of the action of
putting the sticky note on the print, the daily visual reinforcement of seeing
the print with the problem on Jesus, and the worship going into the atmosphere
(and back into your ears) changes the way you think about the problem. When you change the way you think about it,
you will change the way you pray, and the problem will begin to shrink.
Now,
blessed ones, look at the second part – He cares for you. There’s much more in this verse than just
saying that God gets a Holy tear in His Holy eye when you have trouble. He takes
care of you, because He is your father.
Understand that your problems are not yours alone; they are His problems. It is an orphan spirit that comes to tell you
you’re all alone, and that you have to work out your problems all by
yourself. Jesus told the disciples in
John 14:18, “I will not leave you comfortless (bereft of a father or parents,
orphaned).” Now, I don’t know about
you, but when our kids were in trouble, even if it was something that they
caused, we didn’t throw them out of the house and tell them, “You’re on your
own now … good luck!” No, even today, as
they’re on their own, if they come to us with a problem, we do our best to help
them however we can. God is so much bigger
and better than we – why would we think He would desert us and leave us to
handle our own problems? I believe He’s
sitting there at times, watching us struggle, saying to Jesus, “Oh,
if ______ would only throw that on me!”
So,
friend, what are your struggles today?
Just throw them on God, and leave them there. Worship Him.
Trust Him like a little child trusts Daddy.
Peace,
Davina
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