F4S: “Cast all your anxiety on Him...

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

“Cast all your anxiety on Him...

 ..because He cares for you" (1 Pet. 5:7 niv). Absolutely... really really REALLY cares about you and all that you care about. When we pray and listen to His Word we come to see that.
 
He cares about all our friends too.

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden." ~ Corrie Ten Boom

"Give your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall" (Ps. 55:22 nlt).

Way! Check in out.. in Hebrew. "Cast" means: to chuck or throw out like dead-worthless-weight, to throw down, to fling far away, to hurl (..not hurl like after you eat a spoiled lunch at a fast-food greasy hamburger joint, but you know what I mean).

 
What that word does not mean ..is to tenderly take back to your bosom after you cast (break up with the wrong kinda care), nor to hug, or kiss, or cherish, or to stow it away and keep like a valuable hoarded treasure - but to actually chunk it like a big smelly diaper or lumpy Glad trash bag (yeah, to "chunk it" like they say here in Tejas) over that culvert away from yourself. (Read More...)