ALL!
[7] Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.
Psalm 55:22 KJV
[22] Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Different verses; different dispensations, but the same message. One from the old testament and the other from the new testament, but the words are repeated verbatim. Both verses come from the place of personal experience. The same God who inspired David to write the psalm also inspired Peter to write the letter to those he called the elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. What this tells me is that it does not matter where I am coming from, the weight of the pain of the past, the pressure of the present, or the uncertainty of the future; it matters who is backing me up. Life will not always be fair as we think it should be; the problem of sin ensures that we would have to make choices on priorities, but we do have the sure word of God that if we choose Him, He will show up for us in amazing ways.
That is a promise we can definitely hold on to, no matter is going on right now, or what may still come our way. For both David and Peter, they had a relationship with God that gave them comfort in the midst of pain. This is why the message in each verse above is personal: I cannot use someone else's life to measure my own. I can take the lessons from that life, and trust God to help me apply them the right way. David was a complicated man, and Peter was as well, but there is no doubt that both men were helped by God when they learnt to hand over their lives to Him for safe-keeping. Let it be established today that the created can never be wiser than the Creator. The created will always be limited in scope, vision, resources and ability, and it is the limitless Creator that is and has all that the created needs for impact. Am I the one in charge, or is God the One pulling the strings of my pursuits and priorities?
As both verses make clear, the conditions for accessing the help that God provides is to be His own. David refers to 'the righteous'. Peter refers to those that God 'cares for'. We were all made in the likeness of God, and we all have a measure of grace, but God's help is readily available for those who have made a total surrender of their lives to Him. He will not force Himself on anyone, and He will not go against the exercise of my freewill. My role is to cast ALL my cares, with the emphasis on ALL. There is nothing too big or too small to take to Him. If He made the mustard seed and the highest mountains, He sure pays attention to detail, and nothing escapes His attention. God cares for all He has made, but He has a special place for those who have given Him control. He takes care of His own, and He will preserve them to the end. Do not make any assumptions about who you are and whose you are. Make sure today that God is in charge. Your cares and worries will be taken care of. God's time of favour is here.
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