"...casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you."


This is such a simple verse, so this is a real stupid question, but one I cannot find the answer for:

How does one "cast all anxieties" upon Christ? Is it a mental acceptance that Christ has all in control? Is it through prayer or meditation on verses of promise? Or is it a work of the Spirit that we cannot obtain on our own?

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Ian Kemmerer
Covenant Presbetyrian Church,Reading,PA
Fleetwood,PA

"Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart, And all is darkened in the vale of tears, Then shalt thou better know His love, His heart, Who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears. Be still, my soul: thy Jesus can repay From His own fullness all He takes away."

It is by humbling ourselves, acknowledging that we are not God, and that our problems are really His problems. He is in control. Actually, the text says that "casting our cares" on him is actually a means of accomplishing the main verb of the sentence "humble yourselves..."

More here:
http://www.cckpca.org/sermonfiles/1p..._1Peter_24.mp3

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Fredrick T. Greco
Senior Pastor, Christ Church PCA (Katy, TX)
Christ Church Blog

"The heart is the main thing in true religion...It is the hinge and turning-point in the condition of man's soul. If the heart is alive to God and quickened by the Spirit, the man is a living Christian. If the heart is dead and has not the Spirit, the man is dead before God." (J.C. Ryle)