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How much of a difference does it make for you today to know that God cares for you? Peter is telling the church that it should enable us to cast our cares upon God. Augustine tells us that our loves are disordered, and so many of our anxieties are driven by the fact that we love some things too much, turning good things into ultimate things, and then we get anxious about these things because we believe them to be ultimate things. But when we put God in God's rightful place, by resisting the calls of the devil to make other things our ultimate God, then we're less anxious and more focused on God and God's Kingdom, which in turn leads us to love one another with the time we have on this planet.
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