February 13, 2025 - I remember hearing Doris Day singing on an album a popular show tune entitled “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.” I think those words often describe the way that we feel. Most of us have burdens and cares that others know nothing about. Because of these burdens, we often hide our pain and our hurt behind a facade of bravery and stoicism. There is a familiar but often neglected passage of scripture in I Peter 5:7. In that passage, Peter writes, “casting all your care upon him for he careth for you.”
In our world today so much is impersonal. This is the age of bigness and numbers. Yet, though we may have to give the bank the last “four of our social” along with our account number, God still knows us as an individual. God does not keep track of his own by computers. God knows us by name.
We all have various kinds of cares. Yet, every care that you and I are carrying is in this verse. Every burden that we are called to bear is in this verse and Jesus is also in this verse. Peter says we are to cast our cares upon him because he cares for us. No one understands like Jesus. When your heart is pained, when the burdens seem great, the one who cared enough to go to the cross and save us is concerned for all our cares.
It’s something to think about... tbp
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