March 9, God cares for you.

Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exult you,

casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.

Verse Peter 5, 6 and 7.

Why is anxiety about the future a form of pride?

God's answer would sound something like this paraphrasing Isaiah 51, 12.

I, the Lord your Maker, I am He who comforts you, who promises to take care of you.

And those who threaten you are mere men who die, so your fear must mean that you do not trust me

and even though you are not sure that your own resources will take care of you yet you opt for fragile

self-reliance rather than face in my future grace. So all your trembling week as it is reveals pride.

The remedy? Turn from self-reliance to God reliance and put your faith in the all-sufficient power

of the promise of his future grace. You can see that anxiety is a form of pride in 1 Peter 5, 6 and 7.

Notice the grammatical connection between the verses. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God,

now verse 7, casting all your anxieties on him. Verse 7 is not a new sentence.

It's a subordinate clause. It starts with a particip. Humble yourselves by casting all your anxieties on him.

This means that casting your anxieties on God is a way of humbling yourself under God's mighty hand.

It's like saying eat politely, chewing with your mouth shut or drive carefully,

keeping your eyes on the road, or be generous, inviting someone over for thanksgiving,

or humble yourselves, casting all your fears on God. One way to humble ourselves is to cast all our

anxieties on God, which means that one hindrance to casting your anxieties on God is pride,

which means that undue worry is a form of pride, no matter how weak it looks or feels.

Now why is casting our anxieties on the Lord the opposite of pride?

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