Cast your cares on him

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel:

1 Peter 5:5-14 Psalm 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17 Mark 16:15-20

1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you.

This is a fallen world.  Man has sinned and the sin can only be purged through suffering and death.  Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden because the might live forever and there would be no hope for the redemption of man.

But God has made a way for us to be redeemed.  While we are here in this earthly life, however, we are still going to suffer.  Things are still going to go wrong and we are still going to sin. What hope do we have?  Peter, the Rock, says cast your cares on Jesus.  Jesus has promised that he will be with us in this life.  He will not leave us as orphans. He will send us the Holy Spirit and we can be comforted in the knowledge and the hope of one day rising from the grave to be with him forever. So what do we have to fear?  Cast your cares on him.

Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to always rely on your love and grace in this life.  Help me not to forget the promises that you have made that you will be with us and that you will help us.  Help me to cast my cares on you and live a life of love and hope rather than one of fear and despair.

Amen