Casting our cares upon God
Rev. Steven Key offers a pastoral exhortation on 1 Peter 5:7, encouraging believers to cast their anxieties upon God rather than be consumed by worry about unknown future trials and events. The article emphasizes the believer's trust in God's sovereign care and governance, particularly when facing circumstances beyond human control, with practical application to ministerial faithfulness and spiritual perseverance in an increasingly hostile world.
From every earthly point of view as we enter this new year, we have reason to be anxious. We know nothing about what lies in store for us in 2023. Through all the political animosity and conflict, we see increasing hatred toward Christianity amidst the rapid development of wickedness in the world. From the perspective of our human natures, that is alarming. Nor do we know what trials may develop in the midst of our own families and churches. We know not whom the Lord will remove through death,...
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