The Art of Perfect Casting

Cast all your cares on him because he cares for you. -1Peter 5:7

Young Life president Denny Rydberg recently commented about this verse: "Unfortunately, I've seen in my own life and the lives of those around me, that we don't readily cast our anxieties and cares on Him. Maybe we feel it's a sign of weakness to even think we have anxieties... Or maybe we simply forget in the heat and pressure of living life.

"Or maybe, and this is even more dangerous, we don't believe God is big enough or strong enough or loving enough to handle what we're facing. Sometimes, our thinking is skewed. We see our problems, cares and anxieties as BIG and God as small. We might never say that in those words but we act like that.

"Instead we need to think of our problems as small compared to the all-encompassing strength and love of the Lord. And we need to cast our cares on Him because he does care for us."

Well said, Denny. Like a fisher who casts his nets each morning, so should we make a list every day of each care we have; make a regular habit of admitting our concerns and then give them to God, trusting that he is big enough, strong enough, and really does love us enough to handle them. And trust even more that in casting those on him, he will then prepare us as for the cares of each day, even the ones yet unseen.