Practice Casting

Blog – “Practice Casting”

“Casting all your care upon Him for He cares for you.”

What a wonderful word picture this is. It is a picture of any one of us being bent over with the burdens of life. Jesus is walking beside us, straight, tall and strong and offers for us to throw all of our burdens on Him, because He loves us and wants to relieve our burden. Our burden may be heavy trials through which we are going; or if we lose our health, our friends or property; or it may be we have difficult responsibilities we feel we are incapable of handling; or if we feel life in general is too hard and we are being crushed by its load. With any or all of these burdens we may go to Jesus and cast all our “care” upon Him because He is our “relief,” our burden bearer.

The Psalmist reminds us to throw all our burdens on the Lord and He will sustain us; He will never allow the righteous to be made to slip, (Psalm 55:22). In this case the relief will be as real, and as full of consolation, as if He took the burden and bore it Himself. He will enable us to bear with ease what we supposed we could never have done. Unlike other heathen gods, He condescends to concern Himself with the needs and wants of His children, the least and the mighty. One of the richest comforts for a child of God is that when we are afflicted, and are despised by the world, is that we are not forgotten by our heavenly Father. If He notices when the sparrow falls He certainly will be mindful of us.

Practice casting and you will become proficient – “Practice makes perfect,” then you will walk with a light spirit, peace in your heart, a spring in your step, a song in your heart and a smile on your face, regardless of the “care” in your life, because Jesus has lifted our load.


I Cast All My Care Upon You
Kelly Willard

I cast all my care upon You. I lay all of my burdens down at your feet.
And every time that I don’t know what to do, I just cast all my care upon You.