Why do we have a hard time casting our cares on God?
First, we do not see God as having a mighty hand. We see the troubles before us, and like the Israelites who spied out the Promised Land, we look at ourselves or we look at our problems. We do not take into account God's power, God's ability to move in our lives, in our affairs, to help us overcome all things through His love for us!
"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." (Romans 8:37)
God has a might hand, and His mighty Hand is committed to saving us!
"10To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth
for ever:
"11And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
"12With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy
endureth for ever." (Psalm 136: 10-12)
The second problem ...
We may think that God is strong, that He can do all things.
But will He? Does He care about me?
YES!
"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" (Matthew 6:26)
Matthew, the tax collector who would become one of the key Gospel writers, shares this revelation twice in his account:
"29Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." (Matthew 10:29-31)
He cares for us! "For He cares for you," Peter writes to the church in his First Epistle.
How do we know that He cares for us?
He sent His only Son to die for us, and that we might live through Him!
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
and
"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (1 John 4:9)
In fact, we are as dear to God the Father as His own Son, because our new identity is found in Christ Jesus!
"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:17)
What else frustrates our ability to cast our cares on Him?
We see things not going the way we had hoped, or it seems that we are stuck.
But God does care, He is might enough to step into our hardships, but most importantly He has perfected timing in place. God is not just interested in helping us go from glory to glory, but He wants all men to be saved! He wants people to know Him and His love, and He works through us to show Himself to others!
It's very difficult to move in other people's circumstances if we have not been through similar hardships. Remember that Jesus suffered as we do, but without sin!
"For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15)
While we have our own timetable, we have our own way of looking at things, and we expect God to move everything into place as we see fit--God has a perfect time and place for seeing us through every challenge, every crisis. In the original Greek, the phrase "due time" is one work "kairos." A perfect time, a God-moment, an event in due season.
God will indee exalt us, not just getting us out of trouble, but bringing us to a higher plane, a better place, to greater glory!
We will have cares, we will struggle to be humble, to the degree that we do not believe that:
1. God is mighty -- He can help us.
2. He cares about us -- He wants to help us
3. He has a perfect time -- His timing is not deliberately delayed to frustrate us, but to exalt us from our hardships and cares at just the right time!
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