“I want you to be free from anxieties.”
Now, you may or may not remember this, but it wasn’t the
apostle Paul who wrote those famous words “casting all your anxieties upon [God], because he cares for you.” That was another apostle whose name begins with ‘P’.
All the same, many — maybe most — Christians have
at one time or other heard these words appropriated to remind them to let go of
all their cares and concerns, and hand their worries over to God, who loves us.
Some of us heard the line from our mothers, and so the idea comes with a
boatload of sentiment attached to it.
What it should not become is an excuse for passivity.