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A Prayer About Care Casting

A Prayer About Care Casting
Casting all your care on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
Loving Father, it’s a most precious gift to live this day before you knowing that you care for me. I’d surely despair if I had to navigate my way through life’s burdens, cares and anxieties without the assurance of your mercy and your might… your kind heart and your broad shoulders… your ever-presence and your constant-engagement as Abba, Father. More than ever, I realize the insufficiency of my perspective, wisdom, strength.
So by faith… right now… with palms up, I cast my cares upon you, gracious Father. Carry my burdens for the people I love-those dear ones I so wish I could fix and change. Sometimes I foolishly think if you’d only let me be the 4th member of the Trinity for 15 minutes I could do a lot of good in the lives of a lot of people. Oh, moronic man that I am. You haven’t called me to fix anyone, but to love everyone. You haven’t called me to live with indifference, but with deference to you. You are God and I am so very not.
Receive my anxieties about living in a world with a broken economy, the ongoing threat of terror, and the increase of diseases… even things like the Swine flu. Father, I cannot add one minute to my life through worry. In fact, I can take a lot away from my life through trying to carry cares you alone can carry. Turn my “What if’s?” into “Now that’s”… Now that Jesus has risen from the dead, everything has changed!
You’ve numbered my hairs and my days. You have the hearts of every king in your hand. Nothing catches you off-guard or by surprise. There are no wrinkles in your brow or second-guessing in your courts. You give and you take away, blessed be your name, O, Lord!
Indeed, Father, in the gospel, you’re not calling me to live carelessly, but you are calling me to live carefree. How can I possibly love you and others well when I’m constantly thinking about ME and what might happen to ME? When I’m tempted today to grab back my cares from you, swat my hand with the gospel and let me hear a loud loving “Mine, not yours!” So very Amen, I pray, in Jesus’ name.

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