This phrase has been running through my mind all week. Sometimes we sing a song during a worship service and it doesn’t impact us, but this. This one stuck.
Cast your cares
casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7 NKJV
Last week at class our day started with worship, including the song My King Forever. Later in the morning, our guest speaker, Rick McFarland, gave an illustration of what it means to cast our cares on God.
He explained that the word ‘cast’ in this verse is not a fishing term. It is not like casting out a fishing line and reeling it back in.
To cast means to forcibly slam your cares on God. And not pick them back up.
If I am laying my whole life down before the Lord, I need to cast all my cares and anxieties on Him and leave them with God.
I’ve been fishing
There are a lot of uncertainties at work right now. Good changes are on the way, but I don’t know what they are. Instead of leaving my concerns with God, I keep thinking about them. I keep picking them back up.
Maybe that’s why the Holy Spirit keeps bringing this song to my mind. To remind me that I have given those concerns to God and I need to stop picking them back up. I can trust Him to work things out. So can you.
Bible translation abbreviations
- NKJV: New King James Version