Cast all your cares on him!

This is probably the easiest thing to say and hear but how hard is it to do?

If we could only get this and believe it, wow life would be so much easier and our relationship with God so much stronger.

Why can’t I do that just as a matter of course? If we could do that without thinking, how much easier life would be.

The next line is “because he cares for us”.

This is even more reason why we should be able to relax and let our Father God take all our worries.

The 23rd Psalm says:

1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

How powerful that is to know we do not have to fear no evil and God wants us to rest in him.

The word that jumps out of the page at me is “Leads”, he leads me to relax, he leads me in paths. I think I am getting a clue here.

Again, I come back to my question, why is it so hard to actually do it?

The more I think about it, it seems to be a weakness on my behalf rather than any difficulty with God. The one thing that I am trying to give to God is actually what is keeping me back.

That is “Control”.

God asks for control of my life and adherence to the perfect plans that he has for my life, but I do not want to give up control.

Just in case!

How illogical is that?

Just in case God gets it wrong. That his plans are riskier than mine. I don’t think so.

That is why the more I think about it, am I being fearsome or foolish? Well I know that Jesus said it was a sin to fear and I could quote so many passages in Proverbs about the fool.

So here comes the personal confession, yes, I am fearsome and also foolish. Why would I be prepared to take risk and not have my Father take care of each and every detail of my life.

This is my prayer that the Holy Spirit would teach me how to give up control of the steering wheel of my life and surrender it to Jesus.

Yes, it is hard, and I will fall but that is what being a Child of God means, in that the Father is always there to catch me when I fall. That is why he is protecting me from things that I did not even know were coming and shelters me in the storm.

So, the answer is surrendering all to Jesus, by each day praying to the Father and asking him to take control. By listening to the Holy Spirit for advice on what to do and not to do. Reading the Word of God for the wisdom that comes with reading and spending time in it.

I am still learning and still failing to listen to Holy Spirit, but I know that each day as I ask God to take control and protect me. HE WILL.