God Cares About You(r Mental Health)Sample

Today’s verse is 1 Peter 5:7, which says, “Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”

It isn’t necessarily what we would expect from the Creator of the universe, but God wants us to tell Him about our anxiety. He wants us to offer it up to Him in prayer. He wants us to tell Him what we’re anxious about, what we’re afraid of, and what’s bothering us.

And of course, He already knows these things. But offering it up was never about giving Him new information—it was about allowing ourselves to entrust it to someone more capable of handling it than we are.

God asks us to do this because he cares for us. He wants us to be able to live well. He doesn’t want us to be shackled by fear of the future or stuck ruminating about something that happened in the past.

As Max Lucado put it in his book Anxious for Nothing, “It is not God’s will that you lead a life of perpetual anxiety. It is not his will that you face every day with dread and trepidation. He made you for more than a life of breath-stealing angst and mind-splitting worry. He has a new chapter for your life. And he is ready to write it.”