Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. 1 Pet. 5:7
Loving Father, I wish “casting our cares on you” was as simple as throwing a handful of rocks into a pond. When it comes to our cares, they’re a bit more like boomerangs, yo-yo’s, or homing pigeons. They keep coming back. Or maybe it’s just us. We’re more like care-hoarders. It’s just hard to let go of our “stuff.”
Either way, the best news in this verse is the reminder that you do care for us. We know that to be expressly true because of your gift of Jesus. The Gospel is the final and full proof that you’ll always give us what we need (Rom. 8:32), and take what we offload on you. Thank you.
(Friends, as I list things I want to offload onto Abba, add your stuff to my list.)
Father, I give you…
- The disconnect I feel from friends with whom I’ve shared a common love for Jesus for years, but now feel an icy separation because of pandemic and political differences. Please thaw it.
- I give you my constant concern about the physical, spiritual, and emotional health of people I dearly love. Occasionally, I still want to be the 4th member of the Trinity for a little while, Father. But you love who I love 1000 times more than I do. You can be trusted.
- Lastly, today, I give you my insecurities, lingering shame, and nagging fears. You can’t love me more than you do in Jesus, but I long to be so much freer by Jesus—as free as I will be one Day. So very Amen I pray, in his strong and loving name.
