Throw it on Him!

“…Casting all your care upon Him, because He cares for you” (1 Pet. 5:7).  This verse has been my rock this week, and I want to share it with you.

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