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“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
Even for young people today there seem to be many cares in our lives — things that naturally cause us to worry and be concerned. But here the Lord tells us to cast all our care upon Him, because He cares for us. Notice that it says “all your care,” not just some of it. The Lord does not want us to worry about things that might happen.
Perhaps we really want to cast our cares on the Lord, and maybe we kneel down and ask the Lord to take them. But then we may get up, and start worrying again. I must confess that I have done this sometimes, and maybe you have too. Why does this happen? It is possibly because we have not paid attention to the previous verse — “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time” (1 Pet. 5:6). We must first of all accept our circumstances from the Lord, and not resent them. Then, when we have accepted them as the Lord’s will for us, we can roll those cares onto the Lord, and have the confidence that He will carry them for us.
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