“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”-1. Peter 5:7
“Not my problem.” How many of us have heard that before? The not so subtitle dismissal of you as you eagerly press for someone, anyone to help you in your struggle. The care and anxiety mounts, and you frantically turn to this person or that person only to hear. “Sorry, that’s not my problem.”
Safe to say that we all at some point or another have run into a gigantic, debilitation problem. Granted, it may not be gigantic or debilitating to some, and in reality, it may not even be that gigantic or debilitating, but to you it is. It is a real problem that needs fixing. It can be a work issue, financial issue, family issue, relationship issue; or a massive mashup of all those issues rolled into one and hurled at you. Whatever the problem or situation is there is a beginning, middle, and end. The beginning we know, the end we know will come, but the middle portion is the unknown. In this unknown is the devil’s playground. This is where he plays on our cares, worries, and inability. However, this is also where God has the opportunity to get glory. Yet, so often we find ourselves robbing him of the opportunity. We take the problem, whatever it may be, and run to so many different people. There are those that ignore us, some endeavor to help, and some will say “That’s not my problem.” Which implies that it is in turn “your problem.” The devil then piles on and says, “Fix it!” “Fix it!” Then you are neck deep in the quicksand of anxiety with no escape and every day that passes in which you do not produce a solution it only serves to underscore the fact that you indeed are a failure. Or at least you feel like a failure, because you have not been able to fix the problem. When in reality, the premise of the entire situation should have never been adopted because it is not “Your problem” it is “Gods’ problem.” At least it can be. Your heavenly Father desires that you “cast care” because he cares for you. He knows you have need and he wants to help you. If you would but turn and trust, he will help. “Trust him for the future, he knoweth all the way.” If you have given God your life, your all, then by extension you trust him with everything. Which includes your problems, issues, cares, fears, anxiety, and all that goes with this life. Yet, we, this flesh has the propensity to take back and take on cares, worries, and anxieties. The world calls us to be “problem solvers” when God is calling us to trust him. If it all goes to God, then he can work, and when he works, he gets the glory. It’s not your problem, it’s God’s problem, and when he delivers all the praise goes to him.
One of the hardest things for a person to do is to let go. The sanctified life is a life of surrender. God never will say to you “it’s not my problem.” However, he can’t handle it if you don’t let it go. We have to surrender it to him and trust that it is God’s problem now and he is able.
