Who Cares?

1 Peter 5;7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.

All a believer's anxieties can be cast on Him. Christ sustains because He cares.A Christian's confidence rests in the fact that Christ is genuinely concerned for his welfare. Cast "all your cares", personal cares, family cares, cares for the present & for the future, for yourselves, for others, for the church, on God. Our worries can be very burdensome when they arise from unbelief &distrust and they end up torturing & distracting the mind.

The remedy is to cast our care upon God & leave every event to His wise &gracious disposal. Firm belief calms the spirit of man.It takes humility however, to turn everything(lit. throw your anxieties)over toGod & trust that He cares. God is not indifferent; He knows what He's doing in our lives. Sometimes we think that struggles caused by our own sin & foolishnessare not God's concern. But when we turn to God in repentance, He will bear the weight, even of those struggles.

Letting God have your anxieties calls for action, not passivity. Don't submit to circumstances, but to the Lord who controls our circumstances.And maybe even try to carry this verse on a notecard to remind us when the microsecond trials of life enter our mind, that we need to continually keep giving them over to Him and not to our "worry centers", our melancholic sofa bed of mental/I told you so's and you'll never amount to a hill of bean's troughs of ill carnage. To trust the seen to the unseen, and to see through the unseen lens of faith what the seen lense of doubt can easily dismiss.