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'Cast your burden on the Lord' Psalm 55:22
You know all that spam that finds its way into your inbox? Stuff like 'Marine sale now on: 10% off shark kidneys'. You'd be daft not to hit the delete button - it's stuff you really don't need in your crowded life. And yet in life, we can allow a lot of 'spam' to filter in without ever hitting delete.
Troubles come our way and we should just hand them over to God - after all, His Word says, 'Cast your burden on the Lord'. But what do we do? We choose to keep them in our 'inbox' - we struggle with sleepless nights, we let them grind down our health, we become worry-bores.
Psalm 46:10 says: 'Be still, and know that [He is] God'. In this instance, the command to 'be still' comes from the word 'rapha', which means to let go, release and give up. You've struggled long enough now - give your burden to the Burden Bearer. Let it go.
Here's what you could do:
1) Sit and sweat over it. Let it become the focus of all your thinking until your head explodes like an Icelandic volanco.
Or 2) 'Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers ... Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down' (Phil. 4:6 TM).
written by Bob Gass
'Cast your burden on the Lord' Psalm 55:22
You know all that spam that finds its way into your inbox? Stuff like 'Marine sale now on: 10% off shark kidneys'. You'd be daft not to hit the delete button - it's stuff you really don't need in your crowded life. And yet in life, we can allow a lot of 'spam' to filter in without ever hitting delete.
Troubles come our way and we should just hand them over to God - after all, His Word says, 'Cast your burden on the Lord'. But what do we do? We choose to keep them in our 'inbox' - we struggle with sleepless nights, we let them grind down our health, we become worry-bores.
Psalm 46:10 says: 'Be still, and know that [He is] God'. In this instance, the command to 'be still' comes from the word 'rapha', which means to let go, release and give up. You've struggled long enough now - give your burden to the Burden Bearer. Let it go.
Here's what you could do:
1) Sit and sweat over it. Let it become the focus of all your thinking until your head explodes like an Icelandic volanco.
Or 2) 'Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers ... Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down' (Phil. 4:6 TM).
written by Bob Gass
