“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”
Unless you have lived in a shell all of your life, you know what a burden is. I picture a burden as a big load on my back that makes it difficult for me to move as I would like. Most of the burdens that we deal with on a daily basis are in our minds and hearts. We might even call these burdens worries. It is not a question of whether or not we will have burdens, for we will. The question is how do we handle them, or what do we do with them? Psalm 55:22 gives us an answer for that question. First, we are told to surrender our burdens: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord.” What this means is that we take our burdens to the Lord in prayer, give them to Him, and leave them with Him. The last thing here is where the problem comes in, God will take our burdens, but we must surrender them to Him. Jesus is willing to take our problems, but we must release our grasp on them and let Jesus have them. The wonderful thing about Jesus is that He really and truly wants our burdens. He longs to see us live in peace. But sometimes we treat our burdens like old friends and we are reluctant to let them go. We need to remember Peter’s admonition in 1 Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for you.” Do we really believe that Jesus cares enough to really take our burdens? The Bible says that He does, but we must believe it in our hearts and minds. Whatever burden you are bearing today, give it to Jesus and He will take it. Just don’t jerk it back out of His hand! Second, we are told what the Lord will do when we place our burdens on Him: “and He shall sustain thee.” “Sustain” is a big and important word for us to remember in our Christian walk. When we give our lives to Jesus by faith, we never walk alone again. He has promised to be with us as long as we live, and when we die we will be with Him. What this means is that we do not have to bear our burdens alone. Jesus is with us in times of trouble as well as in the good times. Sometimes when things go wrong, we feel that God has forsaken us. Get this down: God will never forsake you. He will be with you through “thick and thin” and will sustain you, or keep you, through all of life's burdens. Living with a realization of God’s sustenance is a matter of trust. We are saved by trusting Jesus to save us. That same trust applies to the things that we face in life. It is sad when we trust Jesus to take us to heaven, but not when we deal with problems that we face on earth. Whatever your burden is today, trust that the Jesus who saved you is the Jesus who will sustain you in all of your activities. Jesus never promised a trouble free life, but He did promise to be with us in our troubles and to sustain us through all of them. Third, we are told that Jesus will be a stabilizing force in our lives: “He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.” The NIV translates this, “He will never let the righteous fall.” Does this mean that the righteous will never have to face the burdens of life? Hardly. The preceding words supposed that even the righteous would have burdens, but that God would take them and sustain us. What it means is that when we have burdens, we will always have someone to catch us. The promise that was given to Israel in Deuteronomy 33: 27 is a promise to us as well: “The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms and He shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall destroy them.” It is not a great leap to say that God “will thrust out our burdens from before us; and shall destroy them.” This verse reminds us that even as believers we will not live burden free lives. The difference between us and the people who do not know God is that we have someone to take our burdens. I hope that you will see this as a reality for you. Bro. Joe
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