Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. (Psalm 55:22 NASB)
In these two verses, the Psalmist
reveals the Lord to us as our burden bearer.
This understanding of Christ as the bearer of our burdens is an
essential difference between those who merely have religion and those who are
truly in Christ. What a contrast between
the true God and the false gods of this world!
In Isaiah 46, the prophet contrasts those who worship other gods and
those who worship the One True God:
Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops
over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome…
… “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,…
Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome…
… “Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,…
Even to your old age I will be the same,
And even to your graying years I will bear you!
I have done it, and I will carry you;
And I will bear you and I will deliver you.
The contrast could not be
greater. The heathen gods Bel and Nebo
had to be carried around everywhere. Yet
the true God Yahweh says “I will carry you” even to your old age!
Dear Christian friend, are you
carrying burdens around that you don’t need to bear? These verses promise us that He will carry
our burdens for us! When we “cast our
burdens on the Lord,” God Himself has made a solemn oath in His word to carry
them for us. Do you believe Him?
This brings to mind a story that I
heard years ago which occurred during the days of the horse and wagon. A wagon driver came upon a man walking down
the road carrying a heavy burden on his back.
The driver asked the man if he would like a ride, and the man gratefully
accepted and climbed up in the wagon.
However, instead of removing the burden from his back and casting it in
the wagon, the man continued to carry it.
The driver looked back at the man and asked, “Aren’t you going to put
your burden down?” The man replied, “Thank
you, but no sir. I wouldn’t ask you to carry me and my burden as well!”
We might laugh at this, but don’t
we who are in Christ often carry burdens that we have no need to carry? If He has carried us by giving His life for
us, cannot He bear our burdens also?
What burdens are you carrying
today? Whether your burden is financial stress, marital problems, health
issues, the loss of a loved one, or perhaps a hurt feeling from someone who has
been unkind to you, will you not cast this burden on Christ now?
I’m reminded here of the words to
the familiar hymn, “What A Friend We Have In Jesus…”
What a Friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.
God has promised to carry
our burdens. Let’s take Him up on His
word…today!
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