CAST!

CAST!

Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail). I Pet. 5:7 AMP

Quick Lessons
1. We all have burdens and weights that sin has brought our way. We have taken upon ourselves more than what we can bear, and some people are dying slowly under the weight and complexity of their burdens. God offers a way out to all of us, inviting us to CAST ALL our burdens on HIM. I believe every part of the instruction is important: 

CAST- God expects me to drop all the burdens with him and leave them there. Sometimes, we contribute to our problem by being too naive. God says CAST; we try to hold on a bit longer. God says CAST; we think we are disturbing God with our many problems. God says CAST; we take it to him in prayer, and as soon as we stand up from prayer, we take up the burdens again. Can't we just learn to leave all the burdens to the one who has promised to take care of them? 

ALL- how did we ever think that there are some problems too little or too big for God to deal with? If God could make the tiniest baby unique, with his/her own fingerprints and DNA, how do we ever think that there is a problem that God does not understand? Give them all to God, after all, my life is his creation and his business; it is his prerogative to sort me out whichever way he thinks is best.

HIM- you cannot afford to miss the target of the burden. Contemporary Iife seems to emphasize the importance of friends over and above God's influence. We spend hours telling friends about our problems, forgetting that most of them have their own burdens and cannot help, while others are even seeking to dump theirs on you. Others are happy that their own situation is not even as critical as your own, so why bother? Why not give your burdens to Him who truly cares? 

RIGHTEOUS- God will always play his part, and he expects all who will enjoy his blessings to also play their part. Righteousness is the qualification required to enjoy God's sustenance. Before you think it has to do with you, righteousness is from God and of God. No man can earn it; you simply walk into it by confessing your sins, renouncing them and accepting the free gift of salvation available in Christ Jesus. You cannot buy it, you cannot earn it, you cannot qualify for it. All you need is to depend totally, completely and absolutely on God.

Where do you stand? Are you trusting in man-made self-help philosophies or in God alone, who can sustain you in the most pressing of circumstances? Man can only lift you up to the length of his arms; God's everlasting arms can hold you to the end of time and beyond time into eternity. Your choice controls your eternal reality. His time of favour is here.