Well, I cast my cares on God and those cares keep finding their way back to me.

So how do I get rid of those cares for good?

We get that question a lot.

And today it comes in the form of an email from a listener to the podcast named Claire Clare

writes this, hello, Pastor John and Tony.

I'm a Christian college student and I listen to APJ all the time.

Wonderful.

Pastor Don, I was recently rereading your book, Battling Unbelief.

In the first chapter, you mentioned first Peter 5.7 and that we should be casting our

cares on God.

I've often wondered about this command and how you do it.

How do you cast your cares?

Do you simply tell God you're giving up your worries?

Additionally, once you do cast them, are we expected to forget those worries or can

we expect them to come back to us?

Pastor John, what would you say to Claire?

Suppose you lived in a village with about 500 people and no army, no fortress, and suppose

you heard that an enemy army of 5,000 armed soldiers was coming against you to take your

village and destroy its inhabitants.

Now that would be in your heart a burden.

It would be an anxiety.

And the kind of thing Peter says in first Peter 5.7 should be cast on the Lord.

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