April 28, 2022 - Peter would write in I Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon Him for he careth for you” (KJV). Personally, I like the way that Phillips translation gives us this passage when it says, “You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.” Whether we realize it or not, you and I are in this verse. If there was ever a passage for troubled believers, this is the passage.
So much in this world is impersonal. You have to press one for English and give someone the last four numbers of your social security number. Yet, God still knows you and me as individuals. Guess what, God does not track us down by the last four digits of our social security number either. He knows us by name and he has time for us. Just like he had time for an outcast publican named Zacchaeus, a woman with a disease that touched the hem of His garment, and an unnamed woman with a poor reputation he met beside a well near Sychar. Jesus had time for them, and he has time for me and you.
When we read that passage in I peter, we realize we are in that verse and that our cares and burdens are in that verse. Peter tells us that Jesus can take on the full weight of all our worries and anxieties. Everything we are carrying, all the baggage we have and every care that is a roadblock to a blessing.
Don’t ever wonder if Jesus cares. He does, and He wants to bear our burdens if we will only let him.
It’s something to think about... tbp
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