Casting your cares

(fun stuff is often also not safe!)

Casting your cares

Our daughter Abby is at camp this week.  It’s a good Christian camp with good safety policies.  The camp is right across the street from a 24-hour emergency room and only 8.5 miles from our house. In theory everything should be copacetic.  In reality we still worry.  After all…like I said, our daughter Abby is at camp!  Many of the things that make camp fun also make it dangerous. And when your own child is the one participating it’s difficult to stay worry-free despite all the research you may have done in advance.

“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.”  Psalm 55:22

One of the interesting subtleties in scripture is that it seldom, if ever, says we will live a stress-free, worry-free life.  Rather it guides us to a realization that we have a way to move beyond the stress and worry; that we have an advocate of the first order who can give us the hope and confidence we need to push through.  The cares really do have to exist before we can cast them on the Lord.  

The challenge is to remember God’s promise each time a situation comes around. We spend far too much time ruminating on the issue and considering the worst thing that could happen.  We spend far too little time remembering how blessed we felt when God carried us through our previous troubles.

Let’s do our best to flip that around.  Let’s not be shaken!

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7,  Number 42