Casting all your cares

Casting all your cares. Casting all your cares.

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Casting all your cares. Casting all your cares. By: Alistair Begg – September 17, 2026.

Since he cares for you. – 1 Peter 5: 6-7, humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him.

Anxiety can creep up at times when we least expect it and rapidly overwhelm us. Or it can take up unwelcome and apparently permanent residence in our lives. Few individuals do not experience it; it may take on different faces, and it may be propelled by different circumstances, but the problem itself is remarkably common.

When we face anxiety, we often try to ignore it by distracting our minds: "Let me listen to some music. Let me go for a drive. Let me run a mile. Let me do something. Just let me run away!"

Notice, though, that in this verse, Peter does not say we are to deny, ignore, or flee from anxiety. Instead, we should be " casting all anxieties on him." The Greek word for "cast" here is a decisive, energetic action word. It could be applied to describe throwing out a bag of trash. We don't put painstaking effort into moving it; we simply grab it and hurl it into the bin. Likewise, instead of going through our days pressed down by the burden of anxiety, we are to throw it, hurl it, upon the Lord.

To do this requires us to offer up our pride-our desire to control and triumph over circumstances. Being humble is what enables us to offer our worries to God: humility's presence leads to anxiety's absence. When we attempt to take matters into our own hands through too much worry, we indicate an absence of humility; we're more concerned with ourselves than with our heavenly Father, or we're more determined to navigate our own course than to leave it to Him.

There will always be a circumstance that can create us anxious. Peter doesn't address any specific circumstances, though; rather, he addresses the anxiety produced by the circumstances. Our anxiety itself is what we cast upon the Lord, doing exactly what the Bible notes to do: humbling ourselves under God's hand, saying, "My Father knows best. He cares for me better than I can care for myself." When worries weigh us down, we can refuse to be burdened by them by calling to mind the Lord's willingness to support.

You might be struggling through today, wondering how you're going to create it to tomorrow. Perhaps it's been a long time since you knelt beside your bed and truly cast your burden upon the only one who is able to carry it, saying, "God, I cannot live my life with this burden on my back. Take it. It's Yours."

If that's you, don't hesitate any longer. Cast your anxieties into the loving arms of your heavenly Father and experience the freedom and peace only He can provide. Regarding the Author(s).

Alistair Begg has been in pastoral ministry since 1975. After graduation from The London School of Theology, he served eight years in Scotland at both Charlotte Chapel in Edinburgh and Hamilton Baptist Church. In 1983, he became the senior pastor at Parkside Church near Cleveland, Ohio. He has written a number of books and is heard daily and weekly on the radio program, Truth For Life. His Daily Devotionals are presented here via a syndication agreement. Faith Alistair Begg September 15, 2026.

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