1 Peter 5:7 "Cast your cares upon the Lord for He cares for you"
Now, let's not kid ourselves, who really does that? Here God! Have my cares! I am going to check facebook now and be totally worry free! Yippee!
Doesn't happen. I've never heard of someone actually making the perfect cast the first time. What? Did I just make a fishing reference? Yeah I did. The Bible is full of them but in all my years of reciting that verse, it never occured to me that it was about fishing. Maybe it's not. I'm not going to the original language and taking it apart or anything, it just kind of hit me the other day that it could be about fishing.
Let's think about it for a second. If you have ever fished then you know that you have to cast your line out several times before you finally get to that sweet spot. After you cast your line, you slowly reel it back in only to cast it out again. After about 50 million times you either lose your bait or catch a fish. Or give up and go shopping.
Now let's refer back to our verse and our usual reality. We cast our care up to the Lord. Again and again until we lose the care or He takes care of it. I know these aren't perfect analogies so don't pick on me but just think about it. God does eventually do something about our cares. Either it doesn't become a care anymore or He does something with the care. Maybe He fixes our problem and maybe He doesn't but either way, it got cast out and something happened.
I think what this verse is also telling us that God cares for us. Not like those "well-meaners" out there who say they want to help you or just let them know if you need anything but they don't really mean it. Or even if they do mean it, we don't take them up on their offer 9 times out of 9.5. But we do take God up on it. We do pray and ask Him for help. Even if you aren't a Christian, I bet you have still prayed at some deep horrible moment of your life for Him to help you. You casted a care. God cares.
He gives us what He thinks we need, not always what we think we need. He takes the bait and sends us fishes in the forms of answered prayers and blessings. Ok, I might be going a little far with that one but still. Do you have all the same cares you had 10 years ago? Probably not. You have all new ones! Some of us have big time things we have been praying for for years and God is working, we just can't see it sometimes. But He cares. He cares and He wants us to keep casting our cares to Him even if we think he isn't biting. Oh my, I need to go to bed. But you get the drift. (see what I did there?)
