Unload Your Cares

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 28, 1905

Unload Your Cares

A VERY beautiful thought is brought out by the French translation of a verse in the first epistle of Peter. The words are: “Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you.” Where our version reads “casting,” the French translation is “unloading” (dechargeant). The difference of meaning is made plain by an illustration we have somewhere seen. The writer said: “The word ‘cast’ might seem to bring to our mind the action of taking up something and throwing it over on Jesus; but many times, dear friends, have you not found the cares too heavy to lift? Have you ever seen a coal cart unloaded? The man took out of the front of the heavy cart a little iron pin, and the cart was so balanced on the axle that then, with a slight pressure on the back of the

cart, it would tip up, and the whole load slide off to the ground, and the pony would trot away with a light step. You do not have to take it up; just take out the little pin of your endeavors to help matters, and, with your hands of faith and committal, tip up the big load, and then run on, for ‘he takes care of you.’”—Selected.