BRING YOUR SUITCASE

1 Peter 5:7 AMP casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].

I have a friend who texted me the following after reading one of the Blogs last week…

“I've felt weighed down with lots of things recently, and the Lord reminded me last night of a picture He gave me  a while ago. 

I'm trying to push a big boulder up a hill, but it's too heavy and I can't do it so it rolls back down to the bottom again. So I try again and down it comes again. Then I realise every time I try it feels heavier, not bcos it is heavier but I’m getting more tired and weaker. I've got to stop trying and lay it all down and let him take care of them. What a relief!🥵

I just wish I could remember to leave them there and stop trying again! He carried all our weaknesses and it was our sorrows that weighed him down Isaiah 53v4. But we still keep trying to carry them. Will I ever learn!”

My friend gave permission to share her testimony because there are times we may all feel like we’re pushing that boulder up a hill! Sometimes it’s a case of casting the care back on to the Lord every two minutes because we keep going back and lifting it up again!

Our God is the burden bearer, Jesus has indeed finished the work at the Cross and it included taking every weight, every anxious thought, every moment of weariness and fatigue, everything that pulls us down or makes us sad. Whatever is causing us grief or distress, Jesus has already taken it on to Himself but He is waiting for us to release it to Him.😊

Why not let today be the day you bring every bit of it to Him and let Him take it away? Not just one thing, but all of it! Why not put it all in one big suitcase and put it all at the foot of the Cross and leave it there?

‘You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.’ (J B Phillips Translation)

The invitation is always there, but He doesn’t force us, so as we go into this special Easter week, let’s choose to do something about it. Give Him all our cares and anxieties and let Him exchange them for His peace of mind and His joy, knowing He is far more able to deal with them than we are.😊 Amen.

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OUR GOD IS MIGHTIER

Psalm 93:1-4 ESV

The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty;

the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt.

Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.

2 Your throne is established from of old;

you are from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord,

the floods have lifted up their voice;

the floods lift up their roaring.

4 Mightier than the thunders of many waters,

mightier than the waves of the sea,

the Lord on high is mighty!

On Palm Sunday we remember Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey but now we see Him triumphant, crowned King of Kings seated on the throne in Heaven!

The Lord reigns! The Lord is mighty! How reassuring that is in the middle of all we hear and see going on in the world. How important it is to keep our eyes on the Lord and on what He has declared in His word because we know His word is truth and it is incorruptible.

Verse 1 says, “he has put on strength as His belt” which reminded me we are to put on the belt of truth, His truth, and if we’ll keep that belt in place then we will be kept safe in Him.😊

Those times when situations seem to pile up like the waves of the sea, when we hear the voices of the flood roaring, we can come back to these verses again “Mightier than the thunders of many waters…the Lord on high is mighty.”  

We can have the peace that Jesus promised us in the midst of the turmoil, when we know our God is mightier than anything that is going on, either in our own lives, or on the world stage. 

We can worship the Lord our God who reigns forevermore and see Him high and lifted up today, robed in majesty, girded with strength and power, and remember He has declared the world is established, that it shall not be moved. 

We have a glorious King, so we can give all the glory to God, to the Mighty One, to the Lord who reigns, but who loves each one of us with an everlasting love.😊 

Thank You Lord. Amen.

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