CASTING YOUR CARES UPON THE LORD

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What does it mean to cast your cares upon the Lord? What does God’s Word say about this?

Let us examine 1 Peter 5:7 (AMPC), “Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him (Jesus Christ), for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.”

This looks so simple, doesn’t it? But I can tell you that it is one of the most difficult tasks for a human being to undertake, which is, living a worry-free life.

Even when as a Christian you try to live such a life, the people around you – family, relatives, friends, neighbours, acquaintances would all believe that something is wrong with you because you do not worry over anything in life.

I recall many years ago when a friend’s sister saw me walking one day and told me that I carried myself like someone without a care in the world.

I was a teenager but I really had no cares back then even though I had not become born again and never had the kind of understanding of God’s Word that He has given me.

I had lost my father and depended on my mum for what she could do for me but I was focused in life on what I wanted to achieve so I worked hard at it.

Looking back at that incident now, I realise it was the right thing to do.

When you pray to God over a matter and still worry about it, it means you have not obeyed God’s Word to cast your cares over to Him.

It means you are still holding on to the matter and don’t ever expect that God would answer your prayer when you operate that way, which is contrary to His Word above.

Please note that casting your cares upon the Lord does not mean you should never have any plan for your life or live a careless life because that would also mean living a dangerous life of unseriousness and you would surely pay dearly for it in future.

What God is telling us here is that we should not fret or get overly excited over any matter because when you become His child having repented of sin, confessed and forsaken sin, accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and you are living in righteous obedience to God’s commandments in the Holy Bible, you have become God’s responsibility.

God cannot fail to provide your needs when you obey Him. You must live right, you must pay tithes and you must trust God to give you what is your right in Christ Jesus as far as His Word is concerned – Ephesians 1:3; Galatians 3:29.

Dear friend, what concern do you currently have as a child of God? Cast it over to God as He has advised.

Worry, anxiety, doubt, fear and unbelief are sins that many Christians today engage in without realising it.

When you engage in any of these sinful habits, you have opened the door to satan and given satan a LEGAL right over your life and you can be sure that satan would perform his enterprise over you, cause you pain and hardship and until you do what God says in His Word, there is nothing God would do for you no matter how much you cry and lament to God over your situation.

If this is your current habit, you MUST repent today and ask God to forgive you. Then you MUST make up your mind never to indulge in this sinful habit but to obey God’s Word and do what it says.

Then hand over ALL (NOT SOME OF) your cares to God and thank Him for answering your prayers. Just be sure that the Mighty Hand of God Almighty and Father of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would come over you and your situation would change for best.

May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus’ Most Righteous Name, Amen.

Gabriel Ama.
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