Once and for all!

casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. 1 PETER 5:7 AMP

The word 'Cast' signifies finality and totality. You do it and forget what you have left behind. God asks me to cast ALL my cares on him, not most of my cares. All my cares- the small, the inconsequential, the minute and the enormous. All.

I must also ensure I do the casting on the right person. We think that people like us can help take away our pain, but we forget that if God does not empower the person, he is as helpless as we are. God alone can help; no other person can.

His nature is the issue here. You cannot predict with certainty how a fellow man will react to you when you come with your problems. You may get a positive answer, or a really negative one. A lot of things are dependent on how the person feels at the time. God is not subject to such Passions, and he has remained the same for all eternity. The same nature of God as shown to Moses on the Mount, was the same nature Jonah affirmed centuries later. He does not change, he does not give up on anyone.

You must also learn to cast all, and leave them there. You don't go to God in prayer, tell him how things are, and then get up and take up the burdens yet again. When you cast, trust that God can take care of you. The fact that you are alive, in spite of the challenges, shows that God hasn't given up on you, or that he cannot help you. His time of favour is here.