“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty had of
God,
that He may
exalt you in due time,
casting all your cares upon Him, for He cares for
you.”
1 Peter 5:6-7
(NKJV)
When we have a burden, a concern, or a worry, we
have certain options we can pursue. We can fret and stew about it; that can
lead us to getting physically sick or we can give it to God and let Him take
care of our need.
God allows
us the choice. When we choose to ‘stuff’ our problems, we eventually get a lot
of issues on our hearts. The modern psychologists refer to this as having a lot
of ‘baggage.’ When I first heard this term, I thought of a person carrying a
full suitcase on his or her back. This imaginary person, bent from the waist,
couldn’t move with ease. That person carried the weight of all his misdeeds and
hurts in such a way he couldn’t see the road ahead.
Our
scripture today tells us when we humble ourselves before God, He will lift us up.
Our being free of the burden might not come as soon as we want. It comes ‘in
due time’, when God chooses to intervene and remove that concern from our
hearts.
Casting all
your cares, I like this phrase. Being married to a man who used to fish, I get
a mental image of a person stretching his or her arm over their head and
letting the reel release the line as far away as possible. In the spiritual
sense, I hear Peter telling his
readers to hurl those woes onto the Lord God and not pick them back up again.
While it is
sometimes difficult to leave our requests with Jesus ,
when we learn to do this we grow in our faith.
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