burdens

Ps 55:22

Cast your burden on Yahweh,
And He will sustain you;
He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

What is my burden? Everyday it seems like we have a new burden. Usually we label it as “insignificant”- a bill to pay, a lingering argument, a hidden sin. But in the daily grind it begins to wear on us. Day after day after day, like a dripping faucet.

Cast that burden on Yahweh, like a fisherman casting out his line. Like the garbage man throwing trash into the dumpster. Throw your burden away. Throw it on Yahweh’s back. He will sustain you. He will not only help you out of a jam. He will sustain you. It’s a continual thing. Tired of the day-to-grind? Yahweh is there to take your burden and give you His Holy Spirit to strengthen and guide you.

When Yahweh sustains you, you will not be moved. The baptized have God’s seal on them. We are God’s Children. We are no longer slaves, but heirs (Gal 4:1-7). We are unmovable. But not by our own doing, but because of Christ. Even if the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, God is our refuge and strength. He is our mighty fortress (Ps 46). We know know that we can cast all our cares on Him for He cares for us (1 pet.)

It is all God. HE will sustain us. HE will not allow us to be moved. HE is the one doing the action. We cast our burden, but not without faith given to us by the Holy Spirit.

We cannot look inside to ourselves for help. We cannot sustain ourself. Only outside of us, God’s action upon us, will preserve us. Give up all notions of doing things "better." You can't do anything without the Holy Spirit empowering you.

Let us greet each new day confident in the promises of God, who is bigger than all the burdens which weigh us down.