It Always Ends in Love

"Cast all your anxieties to Him, for He cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7

Definitions of cast - discard; shed in the process of growth; throw (something) forcefully in a certain direction.

Throw all your anxieties in His direction, for He cares for you.

(So what this all means is just to write them all down, all that you can possibly think of, listing them off one by one to Him.)

Definition of care - for He looks after you, provides for you, tends to you.

for He is our Shepard.

He is our caretaker. That is His job. Care-taker.

So the question is: Are we burdening Him by telling Him about our burdens?

No! Of course not!

He already know all we're feeling. So why hide them from Him?

He rejoices when we come to Him and cast our anxieties to Him.

That is what He is here for, to take our anxieties.

He does it joyfully, actually He already did it.

"He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases," Matthew 8:17

"Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows." Isaiah 53:4

So we must use this wonderful gift He has given to us.

Giving Him all our cares.

-He already took our cares at the cross.

He pre-paid for us to be able to cast our cares to Him and be free from these anxieties.

He did this; and now, we can live in freedom.

We don't have to bear our anxieties. We don't have to live in that punishment anymore because of the sins we couldn't pay for. He paid the debt for our sins, He bore it for us when He died, so that we don't have to.

He did it because He loves us.

So when we tell Him about our burdens, we are NOT re-burdening Him. He has already been burdened once and for all so that we can come to Him free - free from guilt and shame. - Knowing that He wants us to come to Him and receive this free gift. And that He is GLAD to take the burdens for us. So we can come before God with no guilt or shame, we don't have to feel guilty for burdening Him even then on the cross. We didn't make Him do it, we didn't force Him to do it, and He didn't have to do it,- but He did it because He loves us. It's a free gift to us that He wants us so badly to receive, that He died so that someday we might claim our free prize. We did nothing to earn it, nothing to deserve it, -He did. And He just wants to share His prize with us, -because of His love. It always ends with His Love. You ask why would He do this? And the answer is always going to be the same - because of Love. He is Love.