“CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM.”
How much the anxieties of life are increased by forgetting the little but comprehensive word “all” of the text! What father might not learn a lesson from his child, with whom he is starting for a journey. His little boy says, “Father, you will have to carry the big bag; I cannot; and I will carry the little one.” The strong father smiles, and says, “I think you had better let me carry both.” They start. After a few minutes, the little bag becomes a great burden, and the child, overheated and weary, says, “Father, you had better take the little bag too.” One of the greatest lessons of life is for a child of God to let his Heavenly Father carry every burden; to cast all his care upon him. Little trials are a Christian’s great temptations. “Be careful for nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.” “Truly,” says Archbishop Leighton, “the godly are much in the wrong to themselves by not improving this their sweet privilege. They too often forget this their sweet way, and fret themselves to no purpose; wrestle with burdens themselves, and do not entirely and freely roll them over on God.” Many a man who never doubts God’s care of the whole church, to the minutest particular, is tempted to distrust God’s interest in the little things that concern his own daily life. “Do I confide in him,” says the same writer, “for the steering and guidance of the whole ship, and shall I be peevishly doubting and distrusting about my pack in it?” The same age that invented the telescope, brought out the microscope. The same grace that reveals distant things as near, ought to discern our least cares as great to a Father’s love. “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.”—Christian Treasury.