"Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you" Psalm 55:22 NKJV
The burdens and worries of life drag people down. Did you know that worrying robs us of our effectiveness, and the thing is statistics show that about 85% of things that people worry about, never happen. Mark Twain made a famous quotation, 'I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened'. What about you, do you fit this category?
Jesus told us, 'Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own thing. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble' Matthew 6:34. Jesus does not want us laying awake most of the night worrying about something, whether it has happened, might happen or will definitely happen either tomorrow or soon after. If there is anything we can do about it, then fine, get up and do it. However, often there is nothing and we are worrying for worrying sake.
Instead, Jesus wants us to hand over our worries to Him, He is more qualified than we are to handle things. In fact, many of the worries can be classed as burdens and as we can see from our text today, the scriptures tells us to, 'Cast your burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain you.'. Now let's look at this more closely; we are to 'cast' the burden on the Lord. Cast means to throw it or release hold of something. As we do, He shall 'sustain' us. Sustain means to keep you going, maintain and nourish, supply and provide for. When we do cast our burden on Him, He gives us the wherewithal to be able to cope. In one way it is like we are placing the burdens upon His shoulders and waiting for Him to come up with some good answers to our problems. In one way, this is good, but He does want us to handle the things ourselves, He just gives us the tools to be able to do this.
Kidner writes, 'The promise is not that God will carry it, but that He will sustain you. We still have to go through it all.' Copyright Derek Kidner. In addition, Campbell writes, 'The experience of suffering was not taken away from the servant of God, but he was sustained and so made strong enough to resist its pressure and through it, to make his service more perfect. This is how God sustains us in the bearing of burdens.' Copyright G. Campbell Morgan
God allows burdens at times to see how we will cope and how we will handle each given situation. He is there to help and will do, however, rather than taking the burden completely away from us as if it never happened, He sustains us and gives us the assistance and help that we need. We should always cast our burdens on Him. It is the difference between carrying an empty bag of crisps or a bag of cement. Which would you rather carry? I know my answer.
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