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I’m looking very closely at a very small verse and diving into some of the deep truths that are there.
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you (1 Peter 5:7).
Here Peter makes it very personal: Cast all YOUR ANXIETY. Yes, that’s you. He is as concerned about your problems and worries as he is anyone else’s. He invites you to throw away your concerns.
The dictionary says that anxiety is “a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.” And that worry and unease is founded in fear. It causes your faith to be overcome by fear, so that instead of trusting your heavenly Father, you begin to doubt God’s love for you, or wonder if he really is trustworthy. Anxiety causes you to forget that God cares more for your personal well-being than anyone else—including yourself!
Anxiety is the weapon the enemy of your soul uses to whisper lies into your heart and cause you to question God’s goodness and faithfulness. He likes nothing more than to accuse you before our heavenly Father. He uses the same strategy to shipwreck your soul as he did in Eden, by whispering in your ear ‘Is God really concerned about your anxieties? Yours, when after all, there are many more urgent needs in the world than your own?’ He wants to prevent you from casting all your cares and worries on the Lord, and he’ll try any way he can to get you to believe his lies.
Jesus invites you to cast your anxieties on him—right now. So, what about all those worries you’ve been carrying around with you for too long? Isn’t it time to cast all your anxieties on him because he cares for you?
We have created a card of this verse to remind you to cast all your anxiety on God. Click here to download.