“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (KJV)

I always liked this verse, but I never really understood it until I watched some fishermen casting their nets into the water. The men waited patiently for the right waves to come rolling in, then they would take their circular nets that had weights around the edge and, with all their strength, they would cast their nets out into the water.

The word “cast” had a new meaning. They threw their nets into the waves, and they cast them away as far as they could. They let go of their nets. When the nets sank, there would be fish caught in the nets and the fishermen would haul them back and remove the fish. The

men did this over and over. They were strong men, but it must have been exhausting to cast the nets out and then haul them back when they were full of fish. Many of the disciples were fishermen—tough, muscular, strong men who worked hard pulling in nets full of fish and casting the nets out again over and over.

They didn’t toss the nets, or let the nets float away, or let the nets sink to the bottom. They used all their strength to throw the nets as far

as they could, to cast them away.

I wanted to cast all my cares on God. I wanted to use all my strength to throw them as far away from me as I could—casting them

away forever, never to think about them or worry about them or grieve over them again.

The Bible says, “casting all your care.” It doesn’t say some of your care, or part of your care—it says all your care . . . care about

your family, health, finances, job, marriage, children, problems . . . all your care.

I will cast all my cares on God. I will let go and I will not remember.

– Crying Wind

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