DAILY DIET E-BOOK SERIES 01 DAY 10; CAST THEM ON THE LORD, ONCE AND FOR ALL

The ministers in our area had a fellowship meeting on the first Monday of every month. The preachers talked about their burdens, cares, responsibilities, and anxieties. Often they would ask me, "How goes the battle?" (They were all in a battle, but I didn't have any battle. I had the victory! Men in battle haven't won the victory yet. The battle is the Lord's; the victory is ours.)

Here were these preachers with long faces talking about their burdens, cares, and problems in their churches. One of them said to me later, "Your faith condemned us when you'd wave your hand and say, 'Men, I don't have a care! Things couldn't be better!'" Some would shake their heads and say, "The poor boy—he doesn't have enough sense to worry." The truth is, I had too much sense—too much Bible sense—to worry!

If I had cast my cares on the Lord, then I didn't have them. He did. I didn't say no cares existed. I said, "I don't have a care." One pastor would say, "He's lying. I'm his neighboring pastor, and I know him better than the rest of you. I know about the problems in his church." But I'd breeze by and say, "Men, I don't have a care!" I didn't. I had cast them on the Lord once and for all. You can, too!

                                                                                 ...To be continued

FFT: Take your burdens to the Lord and leave it there!

ACTION POINT: Cast your cares on the Lord, once and for all!

INTERACTIVE SESSION: Have you decided to cast all your cares on HIM? (share your comment below;)