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bigmike

1 Peter 5:7 (LSB) 7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
In the body of Christ, we often talk about laying something at God’s feet or laying it at the foot of the cross.
While that phrase is not found in the entirety of the Bible, the concept of it is.
We are told in the verse above that we should cast our cares, or our anxieties, on God, surrendering them to Him because He cares for us.
This is a concept that we all love; take our cares and concerns, all the things that weigh us down, and give them to God.
But let’s be honest; it is easier said than done!
How often do we lay something at God’s feet and then find ourselves running back to pick it up because we don’t see anything happening, or we feel like whatever God is going to do is taking too long?
This is far more common than most of us care to admit.
It is human nature to want to control everything. And when we are facing something difficult or stressful, we often think we have the answer, so we try with everything in us to maintain control and fix it, even when we have supposedly given it to God.
We may not have a clue as to how to fix our problem, but we will hold onto it with a death grip instead of surrendering it.
This should show us who we are and how strong (or weak) our trust in God is.
Ouch!
We must learn to trust God with EVERYTHING about our lives.
If we trust Him with our souls, should we not also trust Him with our situations and our trials?
Giving them to God does not mean that difficult things will simply go away.
But it does mean that while we are waiting, obeying what He tells us to do, and allowing Him to work and move on our behalf, we can have peace that makes no sense to our human understanding.
Yes. We can have incredible peace during the most powerful, savage storms, even when we can’t see an answer or solution.
How? By trusting Him and allowing Him to move on our behalf and refusing to run and pick up that thing that we laid at His feet.
His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
Let us learn to trust Him.

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