Cast Away Your Cares

"Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to fall."
— Psalm 55:22

Let's start with something simple:

God said you should cast your cares on Him.

Not the other way around.

Yet somehow, a strange theology has emerged—one that calls itself "God-centered" while doing Olympic-level gymnastics to avoid believing anything good God says about you.

They claim everything they do is "God-centered."

But watch closely, and you'll notice something odd: the people who shout "God-centered!" the loudest often trust God the least. They don't believe Him. They don't expect help. They don't expect intervention. They mostly expect endurance. Long, painful, spiritual endurance. Preferably in silence.

Truly God-centered people don’t advertise it. They simply believe God—and live accordingly.

Some Bible verses are explicitly about you. Not symbolically. Not indirectly. Not “in a mysterious way.” About you.

When God says, “I will sustain you,” and you respond with, “No, no, this verse is not about me at all,” that is not humility. That is unbelief wearing church clothes.

Ironically, that mindset is not God-centered at all. It’s self-centered. Because you’ve decided—against God’s own words—what God is allowed to be like.

Psalm 55:22 does not say: “Let God cast His burdens on you.” “Help God manage His stress.” “Support God emotionally during a difficult season.”

No. It says you cast your cares on Him, and He will sustain you.

God is not fragile. God is not overwhelmed. God is not short on emotional support.

He is self-sufficient. You are not.

The Direction Matters

Peter made it even clearer:

"Cast all your cares on Him, because He cares about you."

Notice the direction.

• God → you
• Not you → God

Yes, you care about God—but the emphasis of Scripture is this:

God cares about you more than you could ever care about Him.

And He wants you to accept that fact without apology.

The Problem With Faithless Religion

Here’s where faithless religion reveals itself.

Faithless theology loves to talk about:

• How much you must suffer
• How much you must endure
• How costly it is to follow God
• How God may or may not lift a finger, but at least He’ll give you “grace to endure”

That’s not reverence. That’s a suffering fetish.

And worse—it’s self-worship. Because it centers your effort, your endurance, your sacrifice, while quietly demoting God to a passive observer.

True God-centered faith does the opposite. It lets God define Himself.

And God defines Himself as:

• The One who cares
• The One who sustains
• The One who heals
• The One who prospers
• The One who delivers

Your Role. His Role.

God solves your problems. You do not solve His. You are not His savior. He is yours.

The faithless flip this upside down. In their world, God exists mainly to admire their sacrifice. One wonders what they really want—God’s help, or God’s applause.

So reject that nonsense.

Cast away your worries. All of them.

• Big ones
• Small ones
• The "I should handle this myself" ones Nothing is beneath God’s attention.

Practical Steps

Pray about everything. Speak in faith. Stop rehearsing problems like bedtime stories.

Use your words deliberately:

• Speak healing, not diagnosis
• Speak provision, not lack
• Speak progress, not perpetual struggle
• Speak joy, not bitterness

Contradict sickness. Contradict poverty. Contradict failure.

Chains don't fall because you complain accurately. They fall because you believe boldly.

Your Liberty in Christ

God has given you liberty in Christ.

You owe Satan nothing. You owe faithless religion nothing.

Let God be God. And finally—let Him help you.

That's not selfish. That's faith.