“Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.” (Psalm 55.22, NASB)

Of the many spiritual challenges I have to grown into, the casting of anxiety has got to be one of the most challenging. I have a terrible time casting my anxieties, my burdens, my cares on the Lord (and at least leaving them there). If I get them to him I often want to (and do) take them back.

“Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept [instruction] to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated [taught as if by command] by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be neglected without involving transgression [sin]: for the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting ourselves into his place to do for him that which he has undertaken to do for us.”

Spurgeon speaks the truth, those who “do not cast” fall into sin.

Lord, in this day of anxiety, cause my cares to be cast upon you.  Give me strength to leave them there.

The psalmist says that “he will never allow the righteous to be shaken.” What a promise this is; what an incentive to be among the righteous in this day full of anxiety!