Fragment: Cares

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“Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:6-76Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6‑7)).
Cares. We all have them. What can we do with them? Let them weigh us down? What Scripture tells us is to tell them all to the everlasting God who never grows weary. It doesn’t say He will give us everything that we might ask for, but the result will be that His peace will keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. It does not say, either, that our hearts and minds will keep the peace of God. Rather, that peace that ever surrounds the throne of God and that nothing can disturb will keep our hearts and minds. The picture is of an army host camped around one of those walled towns of biblical times. How can we be careful (worry) if the eternal God is the One who has promised to take care? He takes care on a much grander scale than we could ever imagine.
R. Thonney