Cast all your cares

In 1 Peter 5 it says, “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” Cast means to throw, to put forth, or send forth by throwing. There’s nothing in the definition that says we must pick it back up again. Scripture tells us to CAST our anxiety onto Him, our Lord and Savior.

It’s not like fishing, where we cast and reel over and over again in hopes of catching something.  Instead, we must throw it (our anxiety in this case) forcefully into the hands of Jesus. It doesn’t tell us to reel those worries, fears, and anxious thoughts back in once life gets messy. It says cast them onto our Lord.

If we truly trust our Lord to rid us of our anxious thoughts, we will cast them onto Him, knowing He will faithfully take them. He doesn’t want us to reel them back in; He wants us to be set free from them, knowing He is the Almighty and Powerful King. Let us set forth in the freedom found in Christ, by casting our anxiety onto Him during these unknown and difficult times.