Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (or to totter).
But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You. (vs. 22-23)
Cast all you anxiety on Him because He cares for you. I Peter 5
I get a mental picture with the word cast. I pick up my burdens and throw them His way. It is an aggressive act. Like pitching a baseball (though I throw like the girl I am). "Here, take it!"
Here is a list of all the things one can do with anxiety. Feel free to add to it:
1. Bite the fingernails. Down to their nubs.
2. Over eat.
3. Under eat.
4. Lie awake and think of every possible scenario that might ease your anxiety or increase it.
5. Talk incessantly about the things you worry about. (Found yourself without listeners lately?)
6. Doubt the goodness of God.
7. Do the wrong/expedient thing just to be doing something.
8. Make yourself sick.
9. Make everyone else sick.
10.Whine.
11.And whine....
12.Stay in bed all day with the covers over your head.
13.Never bathe. Never shave.
14.Wear pajamas all day long.
15.Pretend everything is okay.......while wearing pajamas all day long.
16.Give up.
17.Set resolutions you know will fail.
18.Fail at set resolutions.
19.Cry.
20.Pout.
Or.......you could throw your burdens to the Lord. Clean house of all those things you worry about. Bills. Husbands. Wives. Children. Enemies. Work. Friends. Illness. The future. The past. The present. Take off the catcher's mitt and give that burden a good throw. The problems you give to God will not come boomeranging back, so no need for the glove. Well, I guess you could say: "Hey, throw all that back at me. I don't know how to wait for You to take care of this mess!" But, really, why would you? Given the list above, we don't do the greatest job resolving our own difficulties.
Trust is an active verb, too. Of course, our ability to trust in God is based upon the fact that He is absolutely trustworthy. And....He cares about us. We give Him the things that bother us because He loves us and wants us not to worry. He is the epitome of fatherhood. The ultimate caretaker. And, best of all, He knows the way out of the mess.
Let those fingernails grow back. Get a good night's sleep. Stop whining into a tub of ice cream and get out of those pajamas. Head up. Shoulders back. After having bathed and shaved (if it applies to you), choose to trust the hands that caught your problems. With a thankful heart, do what is before you today with complete confidence that your Father loves you and knows your name.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You. (vs. 22-23)
Cast all you anxiety on Him because He cares for you. I Peter 5
I get a mental picture with the word cast. I pick up my burdens and throw them His way. It is an aggressive act. Like pitching a baseball (though I throw like the girl I am). "Here, take it!"
Here is a list of all the things one can do with anxiety. Feel free to add to it:
1. Bite the fingernails. Down to their nubs.
2. Over eat.
3. Under eat.
4. Lie awake and think of every possible scenario that might ease your anxiety or increase it.
5. Talk incessantly about the things you worry about. (Found yourself without listeners lately?)
6. Doubt the goodness of God.
7. Do the wrong/expedient thing just to be doing something.
8. Make yourself sick.
9. Make everyone else sick.
10.Whine.
11.And whine....
12.Stay in bed all day with the covers over your head.
13.Never bathe. Never shave.
14.Wear pajamas all day long.
15.Pretend everything is okay.......while wearing pajamas all day long.
16.Give up.
17.Set resolutions you know will fail.
18.Fail at set resolutions.
19.Cry.
20.Pout.
Or.......you could throw your burdens to the Lord. Clean house of all those things you worry about. Bills. Husbands. Wives. Children. Enemies. Work. Friends. Illness. The future. The past. The present. Take off the catcher's mitt and give that burden a good throw. The problems you give to God will not come boomeranging back, so no need for the glove. Well, I guess you could say: "Hey, throw all that back at me. I don't know how to wait for You to take care of this mess!" But, really, why would you? Given the list above, we don't do the greatest job resolving our own difficulties.
Trust is an active verb, too. Of course, our ability to trust in God is based upon the fact that He is absolutely trustworthy. And....He cares about us. We give Him the things that bother us because He loves us and wants us not to worry. He is the epitome of fatherhood. The ultimate caretaker. And, best of all, He knows the way out of the mess.
Let those fingernails grow back. Get a good night's sleep. Stop whining into a tub of ice cream and get out of those pajamas. Head up. Shoulders back. After having bathed and shaved (if it applies to you), choose to trust the hands that caught your problems. With a thankful heart, do what is before you today with complete confidence that your Father loves you and knows your name.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and don't lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
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