Psalm 55:22 (Nkjv) Cast your burden on the Lord, And He will sustain you. He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.(shaken)
There’s a true story of a lady who went to the preacher and asked him to pray that the Lord would carry half of her burdens. She said she thought she could probably carry about half of them herself but she couldn’t carry them all, so she wanted God to carry some! The preacher said he couldn’t do that, as it was contrary to scripture as it doesn’t say to carry some ourselves.
That may make us chuckle but aren’t we all a bit like that sometimes? We all have burdens, and a burden is something that weighs us down, it’s a heaviness we feel. They’re things that trouble or bother us. So what are we supposed to do with them?
Our verse tells us - Cast your burden on the Lord. It doesn’t say to ask Him to help us carry our burdens, or to cast some of them, and then struggle along as best we can with the rest. No it says cast them on the Lord. Nowhere does it say to carry any part of them ourselves!
1 Peter 5:7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. How many? All of them! To cast something is to throw it off, which means we’ve not got it any more. Throw it over on the Lord. Let go of it, release it. It’s not something we try to do. It’s a decision we make to obey the Lord.
Do you ever catch yourself feeling all weighed down with your own, or other people’s worries? What are we not doing? We’re not casting our care!
Can I encourage all of us as we approach a new year, to decide to stop carrying our cares ourselves and do what God has said. Make a quality decision and cast all our cares on to Him and let Him take care of them all. When we do that He will give us a lightness in our spirit, and if we feel the heaviness creeping back in, just remember we’ve cast that care on the Lord and He is dealing with it.😊 Thank you Lord.
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