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He knows all our needs (Matthew 6:32) and has his “proper time,” so we shouldn’t rush to judgment when our prayers, prompted by our worries, are not immediately answered in the way we would like. Humble yourselves “so that at the proper time he may exalt you.” Our sense of timing is typically not God’s perfect sense of timing. Have you forgotten how broad are his shoulders, how strong his back, how ready his ear? Your anxiety may be rising with a subtly swollen view of self, and with it, a diminished view of God. Your cares are indeed more than you can bear.

To lose sight of God is to decline in humility. “Humble yourselves” is the reminder that our anxieties often expose our pride and sense of self-sufficiency. He not only speaks to us in his word, but our Father bends his ear and wants to hear from us - and he leans one shoulder in, ready to bear whatever burden we carry. He wants us to take advantage of the mind-boggling gift we have, as his children, of having his ear in prayer. They must be cast - which is active, conscious, and intentional. He wants our childlike faith that turns to our Father and casts our cares on him. God gives us the dignity of rolling them, of laying them down. But our God doesn’t mean for us to carry those burdens on our own backs and shoulders, but to roll them onto him in prayer.Ĭares and anxieties don’t automatically roll to him. No, we inevitably amass cares, and all the more as we follow Christ’s call to meet the needs of others (as Mueller did for thousands of orphans).

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God doesn’t promise his people carefree lives, free from any burdens or causes to worry. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Mueller learned to live the amazing promise and provision of his Lord in 1 Peter 5:6–7: “If you roll the burden upon God and cast all your cares upon him, you will be free from anxiety even regarding this.” “It is the will of your heavenly Father that you are not to be anxious even in such circumstances,” said Mueller. He believed God could handle every care his children would cast on him, every burden they would lay at his feet, every worry they would roll onto his able shoulders in prayer. Mueller knew God’s back and arms were strong. They are to roll all their burdens upon God.” The children of God, Mueller said, “are permitted, not only permitted but invited, not only invited but commanded, to bring all their cares, sorrows, trials, and wants to their heavenly Father. George Mueller (1805–1898) believed in the broad shoulders of God. “The cares of the world” might have slowly grown to “choke the word” (Matthew 13:22 Mark 4:19) in his own soul, but for this: he learned to roll his burdens onto the Lord. How easily he could have been weighed down by the “cares of this life” (Luke 21:34), even as he did the Lord’s work. Hanging almost by a single thread, humanly speaking, the work continued.

There were nights he went to sleep with the cupboards bare, or with no milk for the orphans’ breakfast, trusting a hope that God would provide in the morning. More than ten thousand orphans were entrusted to his care during his lifetime.Īt times, the whole work seemed to teeter on the brink of extinction. How did he do it? For decades, the man ran an orphanage in Bristol, England. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. (1 Peter 5:6–7)