Our anxieties are often a part of our identity.  We can feel humiliated by them.  However, 1 Peter 5:6-7 tells us that we need to “humble ourselves” and “cast our anxieties on God”.  According to Thomas Constable, Peter is encouraging the believers to submit to God’s hand in their suffering.  God uses difficulties to perfect us.

In the United States, we don’t experience suffering the way New Testament believers did under Nero.  Stories of what Nero did to Christians are terrible.  While we don’t face extreme persecution, we still have troubles in life.  This passage applies to us today just as much as in Peter’s day.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank You that we can cast our anxieties on You.  We need Your care in trials.  Please help us to humble ourselves under Your power until “the proper time.”  We need You now.

I pray this in Jesus’ name.

God is so good.