Cast Your Cares

1 Peter 5:7: Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Welcome back to another inspirational moment from historical Christian romance novels.

Do you find yourself buried in worries and overwhelmed by anxiety? I must admit this happens to me more often than I like. Most days I am doing fine, but it just takes one incident or news of a struggle that a family member is facing, to trigger the worry.

Now, how often do you take that anxiety and give it to God? Or do you ever feel like Greta from Jody Hedlund’s novel A Cowboy for Keeps?

In the novel A Cowboy for Keeps by Jody Hedlund, the

heroine Greta struggles with feeling as though she is

unwanted and burden to everyone in her life.

God was surely weary of all her problems. Why would

He want to hear from her again, with one more trouble.

(p. 249 Jody Hedlund, A Cowboy for Keeps 2021)

If you have felt like Greta or feel like her now, I want to remind you of what Jesus said in John 16. In verses 16 through 33 Jesus is speaking about His name in prayer. Let’s zero in on John 16: 23 & 24.

In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

I want to encourage you to cast your cares upon the Lord and boldly pray over your worries in Jesus’s name. For our God is mighty and his shoulders are big enough to carry your load!

I will leave you with this thought: God does not see you as a burden, instead He eagerly awaits to answer your prayers.