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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 1, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 47.

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“Casting All Your Care”

By Mrs. H. E. Warner

“But,” says one, “I must be anxious about the conversion of my unsaved relatives; how can I help being anxious about them? I pray continually day and night for them, but I see little or no change.” Yet Jesus calls you to “cast all your care upon Him,” even the care about the conversion of your friends; for in this, as well as all else, “He careth for you.” You may have been walking in the vain shadow of your own energy and anxiety, and disquieting yourself in vain. Ps. 39:6. He who gave His very life blood for those relatives, is not gone-away out of call. He is close by, waiting for you to trust Him. His word is, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” And to believe is to enter into rest about them (Heb. 4:3), because Jesus, when trusted with them, makes their conversion His business.
But what if they resist? What if they will not come? Is not that the very consideration which has kept you wrestling in prayer, with your eye upon them all the time, and which is making you anxious now? But God says, “In nothing be anxious [therefore in this be not anxious]; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” R.V. Your hearts and your thoughts are not guarded in Christ Jesus while you are occupied about the resistance manifested by your dear ones.
You are in heart making something impossible for God, and you are taking upon you the part of the transaction which can only be regulated between them and God. Does God want them saved? Is Jesus at hand to understand it? Do you, when you pray, believe that you do receive their salvation, because God has promised it, and that without doubting in your heart? Mark 11:24. If so, you can no longer have a shadow of anxiety about the matter, because it has passed into the hands of the living God, and Jesus is close by to hear you whisper again and again, that you know it is safe with Him.
MRS. H. E. WARNER.