What to do with Worry…Cast it on the Lord

What to do with Worry…Cast it on the Lord (I Peter 5:7)

I Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

George Muller Massena, one of Napoleon's generals, suddenly appeared with 18,000 soldiers before an Austrian town which had no means of defending itself. The town council met, certain that capitulation was the only answer. The old dean of the church reminded the council that it was Easter, and begged them to hold services as usual, and to leave the trouble in God's hands. They followed his advice and turned their worry over to the Lord. The dean went to the church and rang the bells to announce the service. When the French soldiers heard the church bells ring, they concluded that the Austrian army had come to rescue the town. They broke camp, and before the bells had ceased ringing, vanished.

God took care of the problem. He can take care of your problems, too. Don't let worry weaken your faith. Worry will weaken your faith and rob you of your peace. The beginning of worry is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of worry. A recently licensed pilot was flying his private plane in a cloudy day. He was not very experienced in instrument landing. When the control tower was to bring him in, he began to get panicky. Then a stern voice came over the radio, “You just obey instructions, we’ll take care of the obstructions”.

I Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” God wants us to throw our cares overboard, He wants us to willingly throw them upon Him. Casting indicates a deliberate act of our will. In other words, “I will thrust my cares upon the Lord”. Oswald Chambers said, “Worry is an indication that we think God cannot look after us.” The LORD is telling us to stop worrying. In other words, we are to stop worrying and never start worrying again. Nothing justifies our worry and anxiousness when we have the Lord. Worry is sinful. We may dignify worry by calling it by some other name—concern, burden, a cross to bear—-but the results are still the same.

Worry fails to recognize that God is working in your life. God knows what He is doing. He has not forgotten us. God is at work, but when we worry, we are saying that God is not in control. Worry is irrelevant, it cannot change anything. It says that He doesn’t know what He is doing and He can’t take care of us. Worry is like a rocking chair, it does not get you anywhere. There is no need to worry because the Lord can supply every need for every situation that we face in life. God is bigger than our problems. He is never taken off guard or surprised at what takes place in our lives. He knows what is going on and will take care of you. The man who feeds his heart on the record of what God has done in the past will never worry about the future. It’s been said, Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its joy.

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action. Worry wears us down spiritually in a number of ways!

1. Worry harms our health.

1. Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
2. Worry prevents our productivity.
3. Worry manipulates the way we minister to others
4. Worry trims down our trust in God.

The pressures of the ministry eat at the heart muscle of any man, or the stomach lining, or the arteries, all of which compose the miracle that is the human body. If you're the type who frets about things that are beyond your control, you could be asking for a heart attack. A study that tracked 1,759 initially health men for 20 years found that those who worried the most over social conditions, such as poverty and crime, were about twice as likely to have suffered a nonfatal heart attack as those who worried the least. Worry in general was found to be harmful. According to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, the men who worried about their health had a 39-percent greater risk of angina. And financial worries led to a 20-percent greater risk for heart problems.

Worry is the interest we pay on tomorrow's troubles. We spend more time worrying about the things we’re unsure of and less time worrying about the things we’re sure of. It seems like worry is programmed into our brains. If we don't have something to worry about, we worry about that. Remember, you can't change things when they are outside of your control. It doesn't help you to worry about something you can't change. Keep in mind, God has a solution for every worry that comes into your life. God will never be guilty of nurturing the sparrows and neglecting His own children.

Prayer, Father in Heaven, I regret having carried these burdens and worries so long by myself when, in fact, You were always ready to take them from me and to carry them on my behalf. But it’s never too late to do what is right, so right now I make the decision to yield to You every one of these matters that are troubling me. Thank You for coming alongside me to take these weights from my shoulders. Because You are so loving and attentive to me, I can now go free!
I pray this in Jesus’ name!

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