The other day, the Holy Spirit told me, “It’s time to let go of the things of earth.” Wow, that was really cool. I could sense He was pulling on my heart and wanting me to begin to realize that I’ll soon be in Heaven. What joy it was to have Him show me this. Soon, and very soon, we are going to see the King. Isn’t that wonderful?
God wants me to trust Him with everything. Everything…How precious is that?
As Christians, Jesus lives in us through the Holy Spirit. Jesus promised to be with us. The tricky part is learning to let Him live His wonderful Life through us. As we yield to His Word, to His leading, to Him, we learn how wonderful He is.
I’m seeing so many pastors taking on so much care today. Others are as well. I even heard that many churches will not be re-opening after Covid 19 because the pastors say this whole matter is too much and too hard. God loves these people and He wants to take all care from them so they can live free indeed.
Some thoughts about what God’s saying to me right now regarding care.
It takes great faith and trust in God to cast all my cares on Him. But, that’s the point. He wants me to have great faith and to be able to live free while I trust totally in Him. That truth will make you rejoice with the angels. Hallelujah!
It is such a strong and often unconscious choice to take on care. It’s such an easy temptation to fall for. We seem to go out of our way to show others that we care without realizing the “care” we’re opening ourselves up to.
What am I doing trying to take on care? Any care. That’s God’s job. If He asks me to cast all my care on Him, it must be for very good reasons so I better do it. I can’t let pride make me think I can “care.” No, I need to humble myself by casting all care on Jesus. That’s where it belongs…If I’m not casting my care on Him, I end up all stressed out and life soon becomes really yucky.
strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
Acts 14:22
It’s as if God is going to allow hardships in our lives to teach us that we must give Him our hardships and any “care” that accompanies them. He wants to teach us to trust in Him with all our heart with everything, every hardship, and every temptation to take care on ourselves. In order for us to enter the kingdom of God – that care-free place of complete trust, peace, rest, and joy – we must loose ourselves from any burdens that bring care to us. We can’t keep our “care” and enter His kingdom. Wow, such love beyond our understanding. All we have to do is be obedient to His Word so that we can enter His beautiful, care-free kingdom.
I know it can sound completely backwards, but it’s true. When we have “care,” we take on so much stress, strife and other bad things that hurt our minds and bodies. When we give all our cares to Jesus, which is where they belong, we free ourselves of burdens and it allows Jesus to handle whatever has brought us care. He’s simply telling us to release our cares to Him by casting them on Him. It’s His will for us, and I’m glad it is because if it wasn’t, I’d be sunk with so much care. Do you see how loving it is for the Father to take all our care only to take those cares on Himself? He’ll handle everything we give Him. He simply asks us to leave it with Him. Wow, no worries. Care-free. What a life He’s calling us to share in. Free indeed. Sounds really wonderful. That’s the kingdom.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 Peter 5:5-7
We can’t take care with us into the Kingdom. It won’t fit through the gate. Through hardship and trials, God’s wanting to relieve us of all care so we can enter His wonderful, matchless Kingdom of light. That’s the plan. Give up care. Leave it. Humble yourself by casting it all onto Jesus, and enter the Kingdom of trusting Him, of His peace, rest, joy and care-free living. Amazing. What a Kingdom.
God bless you all,
Mark
Note: While we may not agree with everything a particular church or Christian group teaches or believes, there are times when we can be blessed by something outside the realm of our current understanding of God.