Because He Cares

So yesterday I woke up feeling nauseas (no people, I am NOT pregnant) and tired and yucky and emotional and anxious, and feeling all this and knowing the day I had ahead, I cried over my breakfast. And poor Russ didn't know how to deal with me. So he followed me out to my car, gave me a hug and said sweetly, "I love you and Jesus loves you."

"I love you and Jesus loves you."


A simple phrase spoken. Any other morning I would have laughed it off, or considered it trite. Any other morning it wouldn't have meant much. Just words.

But this morning the words rang in my ears and radiated in my heart, because something about being loved made everything alright.

And I have been meditating on 1 Peter 5:7 lately which reads, "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

And for so long I have focused on the first part of this verse "Cast all your anxiety..."

And oh have I been casting. I say "Oh Lord, take my anxiety, I am casting it, I'm casting, Lord! Lord, here, I am casting my anxiety!! Take it. Take it."

And with all this casting you think I would feel better. But I just continue in my worry and stress and fretting.

And for some reason, as I was reading yesterday morning before Russ spoke those words, I realized I was completely missing the most vital part of the verse "....because he cares for you."

Because He cares for me.


When I cast my anxiety on the Lord, it is not the same as letting it go, or tossing it to the wind. It dawned on me that the Lord actually takes the worry up into his hands and deals with it. It goes somewhere. I can cast my anxiety on the Lord because he cares about me, loves me, and cares about the thing I am anxious about.

Whatever it is, it does matter. It matters to him because I matter.


And to me, this is the secret, because I can do all the casting in the world, but if I don't trust God to deal with it, I still sit with it, and won't truly give it over. I was so focused on my role(the casting), I missed God's role. And isn't his the one that really counts?

So God cares, and he loves, and this is everything.

I love you and Jesus loves you.