I came across a devotion this morning.
It is titled Casting Your Cares, and you can read it here.
The message is about giving God your worries…casting them upon Him.
As a knitter, the phrase “cast on” struck me.
This is what we knitters do when we begin projects. We “cast on” the stitches – placing the yarn upon the needles. These stitches are what we use to create our fibery works of art. The needles are the tools that we use to make the patterns interesting. Our hands are what ultimately hold those needles, controlling whether we’re knitting a knit or purl stitch, or even doing a yarn over.
I looked up the word cast, and it literally means to throw.
The Bible commands us to throw our concerns to God.
Boy, do I need to do this…daily. I need to put my worries squarely on God’s shoulders (what I might consider the needles) and trust that in His hands, those stitches – the good and the bad (as knitters, we’re known to mess up) the pattern WILL be perfect and beautiful in the end.
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Oh my gosh… I LOVE this… I’ll think of it every time I THROW those stitches onto a needle casting on… maybe with every cast on stitch, I can pray what I need to cast away to God… AWESOME!
What an awesome insight! Thanks for sharing it! 🙂 This verse (Cast your cares on God for He cares for you.) always reminds me of days gone by when I worked in Awana and my own little guy was a Cubbie. It’s the very first verse the kids (3 year olds) learn in the Awana program.