Humble Casting

I saw something different as I was reading in the book of 1 Peter 5:6,7.

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you."

How many times have you heard these verses divided into two separate parts?
Rarely have I associated them as being connected with each other.

But what if they are?

What if humbling ourselves has a direct correlation
on whether we are able to cast our cares on Him?

How many of our cares are rooted in pride?
How many of our cares are concerns about how others perceive us?

According to the notes in my Bible,
the word 'care' comes from the word 'merimna'.
'Meiro' means "to divide" and 'noos' means "the mind."

When we have cares,
our mind is divided by anxious thoughts, burdens, and distractions.

A quote from my notes-"'Merimna' means to be anxious beforehand about daily life. Such worry is unnecessary, because the Father's love provides for both our daily needs and our special needs."

The verses before these exhort young people to submit themselves to their elders.
But then it goes on to say that we should all be submitted to one another and we should be clothed with humility because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. If we humble ourselves under God's hand, then He will exalt us in good time.

If we were submitted to others, we wouldn't be prideful, would we?
We wouldn't be so worried about hiding our shortcomings from them.
Instead of waiting for life to humiliate us and worrying about hiding that humiliation,
we'd humble ourselves under God's hand and submit ourselves to others of like faith who are also clothed with humility.

Those clothed with humility aren't judgmental.
They know where they've come from and where they are going
and they just might take out a towel
and humbly wash our feet
if we humble ourselves enough to allow our feet to be washed.

The bottom line is this...
He cares for us.

That's why we submit to others.
That's why we humble ourselves.
That's why we cast our cares on Him.