Casting the whole of your cares [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.
1 Peter 5:7 AMPC
A child’s world is one of simple trust and reliance on their parents. They do not worry about where their next meal will come from, or how they will be clothed or sheltered. For the child, it is enough to know that their parents will take care of them. They live in the moment, free from anxiety about the future or regret about the past. Their dependence on their parents is not a weakness but a source of strength, for it allows them to focus on the joys of life and to explore the world around them with wonder and curiosity. As we grow older, we often lose this sense of childlike trust and become burdened by worries and fears.
However, God is inviting us to continue in this childlike trust, to be free from anxiety and worry. Our anxiety and God’s care are two very different things. Anxiety has led many to suicide, drug addicts, and hundreds to the asylum. These anxious cares do not only lead us into sin, and destroy our peace of mind, but they also weaken us for usefulness.
Though God wants us to grow spiritually, but not to the point of becoming independent of Him. The day a man thinks he does need to depend on God for anything, he begins to collapse. Such thinking is seen as a manifestation of pride. Therefore, such a person should expect God’s resistance, as the scripture says in James 4:6, that God resists the proud.
The Scripture encourages us to cast our cares (in its entirety), upon the Lord, for He exercises a care which is wisdom. God is wonderful; He is a Father indeed, and we are very precious in His eyes. He knows the end from the beginning. He knows every detail about us, even the hair on our heads, not a strand can fall off without His knowledge.
Care to us is exhausting, but God is all-sufficient. For us it is sinful, but God’s care of us is holy. Care distracts us from service, but the Divine mind does not forget one thing while remembering another. You may tell your griefs to others to gain their sympathy; you may ask friends to help you, and so exercise your humility; but let your requests to man be ever in subordination to your waiting upon God.
