“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
It is possible to live a long, long life as a believer and yet never learn to cast our care on the Lord. We can memorize the verse and even preach it to others, yet never really practice it in our own lives. We know theologically that God cares for us, that He is concerned with our affairs, and that He is well able to take care of the greatest anxieties we could imagine. Yet we insist on tossing and turning in our beds at night, fretting, worrying and imagining the worst.
It doesn’t have to be that way. I have a friend who faces more problems and headaches than most of us have ever known. If he had to bear them himself, he would be a spiritual basket-case. What does he do? He takes them to the Lord and leaves them there, gets up from his knees, crawls into bed, sings a few verses of a hymn, and is off to sleep in no time.
Bill Bright once said to LeRoy Eims, “LeRoy, I have found great comfort in HYPERLINK "javascript:" . I have concluded in my own life that either I carry my burdens or Jesus does. We cannot both carry them, and I’ve decided to cast them on Him.”
Eims decided to try it. He wrote, “I went to my room and began to pray. To the best of my ability I did what Bill had said. For months I had carried a heavy knot in my stomach. I could actually feel the thing leaving. I experienced the deliverance of God. No, the problem did not go away, and hasn’t to this day. But the burden is gone. I no longer spend sleepless nights or cry myself to sleep. I can honestly face the burdens with a joyful spirit and thankfulness of heart.”
Most of us can identify with the one who wrote: “It is God’s will that I should cast/ my care on Him each day./ He also asks me not to cast/ my confidence away./ But oh! how stupidly I act/ when taken unawares,/ I cast away my confidence/ and carry all my cares.
And all the time the Savior is saying to us:
Bear not a single care thyself,
One is too much for thee.
The work is mine and mine alone.
Thy work is ‘Rest in Me.’