Casting Your Cares

 

 

Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7

 

 

Are your worries leading you to despair? When circumstances overwhelm you, is fear taking control of your life? Where is the peace that Jesus says belongs to you?   

 

Peace is the result of casting your cares—your fears—your stress—your uncertainties—your worry and anxiety all upon God through prayer and thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6-7). 

 

Instead of casting their cares on the Lord, many Christians ask God to take their fears and anxieties and give them peace. However, that does not work. The Word says we are to give our anxieties to Him. We must hand Him our fears, stemming from our worries and uncertainty about the future. He wants us to trust in Him because He cares for us. Casting our cares on Him occurs when we place our faith in Him and His promises. Christians who lack God's peace have not taken their cares to the Lord and truly left them with Him. 

 

As a Christian, you have received Christ’s peace. It is a fruit of the Spirit that resides in your born-again spirit. However, your cares and anxieties can blind you to His peace. When you release the cares of this world to Him, peace will flow in your life. 

 

When your worries and fears consume you, you are carnally minded. You are obsessed with your needs instead of trusting the Lord. Paul says, “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace” (Romans 8:6).

 

When you are carnally minded, you are not just “prone” to death; the Word says it “is” death. Similarly, being spiritually minded does not merely dispose you to life and peace; it is life and peace. When someone claims to be spiritually minded yet is consumed by fear, he has deceived himself. He is carnally minded and experiences death instead of life. If we continually renew our minds with the spiritual truths of God’s Word and allow them to guide our lives, we will receive life and peace.

 

Your righteousness with God in Christ is your peace. No one who seeks to gain peace with God through their own efforts will ever attain God's peace. His peace is granted by grace through faith and is experienced regardless of your circumstances or what you lack or possess. Human peace is only felt in the absence of problems. Those familiar only with human peace do not experience it frequently, and it certainly does not last. God's peace is independent of our circumstances and has an endless supply for any problem we face. 

 

God has given us the gift of His supernatural peace to experience. Cast away those fears and surrender them to Him! Don’t cling to the oppression of fear. Offer Him your worries with thanksgiving. Eliminate the blockages that hinder the freedom of His blessing, and peace will flow like rivers of living water.

 

You experience God’s perfect peace when you trust in Him. You rest in the truth of His love and the promise of His Word. You find peace when your mind is focused on Him, not your problems. You are casting your cares on Him—never forgetting that when you do, your cares belong to Him, not you. Casting your cares on Him is a spiritual truth with the supernatural power to change your life.

 

 

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