He Cares For You

I love it when I read something and have a new thought that I have never seen before. it excites me so much. I feel full and energized and I just want to share it with somebody…anybody…everybody.
Well I had just such an experience again this evening.

1 Peter 5:7 (NKJV)
casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

On the surface, I am like “Yeah great verse. Jesus cares about me”, but it is so much more than that. And It is tough in English to understand some of these things because this verse uses two different Greek words that are both translated in English as care, but mean two entirely different things.
The first word for care here means worries and anxieties and carries the idea that they are distractions. This is what we are to “cast” on Jesus. The second word means to make provision for what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something.
WOW! Did you catch that? He wants us to cast our fear, worry, anxiety on Him because they are distractions, They are distractions because He is making provision for all our needs.
That is exciting.

My next question is how do I “cast” my care upon Him?
Just the same way David did and encouraged us… with our mouth.

Psalm 56:3 (NKJV)
Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.

God does not rebuke us nor condemn us when we are afraid, even though He instructs us not to. He tells us to cast it over to Him. And we do that by telling Him we are afraid.
When we admit our fears to God we take away the power those fears have over us, and the distractions begin to disappear and our trust in God reassures us that He truly has taken care of us and made provision for everything we have need of and I so doing the fears then begin to dissipate.