Lord Please Take These Burdens

Scripture Psalms 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Observation: When I teach my class on depression, I tell everyone how I tried to carry the burdens of life and couldn’t. I’d carry the burdens of the day, all my problems from the past and my worries about tomorrow. I will tell how there is no way to carry these burdens and how they can get so overwhelming that we just want to die and carry them no longer. God never wanted us to carry these burdens and He desires to take them from us if we will let Him. Allowing God to take our burdens is showing our Lord that we trust Him, but it is easier said than done.

Application: I tell others and teach this fact about burdens but each day I take them up and try to make it through another day. I need to learn how to set them down at the cross and never look back. I can’t move forward if I don’t and God has other things planned for me to do. I need to be focused on what God desires of me and not the burdens I carry. I need to let go and move.

Prayer: My Lord and my God. Thank you for desiring to take these burdens from me, I stored up so many. Help me let go and trust you, that I may never try to pick them up again, but to give them to You to discard. All I want to carry with me any longer is the desire to please you and finish this race you have put me in. Help me finish well. I love you Lord, may I show you that today.