“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." (1Peter 5:6-8)
We perform it well, this need to pray and ask the Lord to handle it, and inserting ourselves in the process because He's not moving fast enough or doing it the way we envisioned it. It is a lack of faith to worry over it. It is a lack of faith to try and get in God's way. The scripture reads, "In due time." That means God's timing, not ours. We will have to learn to wait and cast our cares on Him. That may mean every day, more than once a day, but we must trust Him and wait. A woman whose son went off to war worried daily if she would ever see him again. She spent most of her money sending word and food to her son to make sure that he ate and was safe. With no one to help her care for her farm, she had neglected it until there was no money left to send food or messages. Her only means of survival was to let go of the worry and focus on her own survival and hope that her son would return. She resolved to prayer. The more she worried, the more she prayed, the more she would sing, and the more she would praise God. There was no money and no food to send to get in God's way. The worry she began with shrunk in its power but her faith grew. I will cast my cares upon Him for He loves me so. There is no other place where my hope can go. And if I the thing that I hope for the most Takes its time, and is ever so slow. I will wait on God who brings me peace. My faith the proof of what I cannot see. When a traveler arrived at her door and asked for water, he noticed her hands and asked if he could see them. She allowed it. He noticed the lines and cracks in her hands and asked if he could massage them. She hesitated, but allowed it. When she looked up at the man who treated her so tenderly she barely recognized that it was her son. "Yes momma, I am home. Ten years has changed us both. I never thought I would see you or this place again. When the money and food stopped coming, I became fearful and thought I would die. But I remembered the scripture that you had shared with me as a little boy, "Cast my cares upon Him, for he cares for me." I recited it daily. I grew stronger and stronger until I was able to help my brothers. I was no longer focused on dying but focused on living, one day at a time." "Besides, the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting of ourselves into His place, to do for Him what we dream He, either cannot or will not do...Now, this impertinence, this presumption, what if I say, this audacity, has in it the very nature of sin, to attempt to know better than God, to snatch from His hands the helm by which He guides affairs, to attempt to correct His charts, to re-map His providence. There is in worrying the very nature of sin." Let us give it to God, every bit of it, casting our cares upon Him! GiGi
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