Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 55, 22. The invitation to lay it down.
Life often feels like a heavy load. Worry, grief, shame, fear, and uncertainty are weights many carry silently. Yet God does not intend for us to bear these burdens alone.
Through Scripture, He consistently invites us to lay our burdens at His feet. The call in 1 Peter 5, 7 is direct. Casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.
This verse doesn't merely say some anxieties, it says all. This shows God's deep desire to be involved in every detail of our lives.
Many believers fail to grasp the full depth of this truth. We might give God our burdens in prayer, through worry. True casting is total surrender, a lesson from Hannah's sorrow.
In 1 Samuel 1, we meet Hannah,
a woman burdened with infertility, and the ridicule of her rival, Peninnah. Deeply distressed, she went to the temple to pray. She poured out her soul to God, and though nothing changed immediately in the natural, something changed within her.
Verse 18 says, Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. This is the essence of casting our burdens, entrusting them to God with faith, and then walking away changed even before the situation resolves.
Hannah's burden didn't break her. It led her to a deeper intimacy with God, which resulted in the miraculous birth of Samuel, the burden-bearer, Jesus Christ. Isaiah 53, 4 says of the Messiah, Surely He took up our burdens, and gave them to you. He laid down our pain and bore our suffering.
Jesus is not distant from our struggles. He bore the ultimate burden, our sin, on the cross. Matthew 11, 28, 30 offers one of the most comforting invitations in Scripture. The hidden truth here is that we are never burden free. We are always yoked to something.
Jesus doesn't say, We are not burdened with anything. Jesus doesn't say take off your burden and go he says exchange it for mine his burden is light not because it demands nothing but because he carries it with us we are never alone in the yoke.
Lessons God's shoulders are stronger, we were never designed to carry life's full weight trying to do so is spiritual pride thinking we can handle what only God can. Faith activates release, casting burdens is not emotional, it is an act of faith.
Like hannah we release them not when we feel like it but because we trust God's character, peace precedes the miracle sometimes God changes us before he changes our circumstances. Peace comes first, then provision, God doesn't promise a life free of burdens but he promises his presence and power in the midst of them.
Casting your burdens isn't weakness, it's worship, it is an acknowledgement that God is greater than whatever you're facing so today lay it down he's waiting you.
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The lord is always there to listen to to lift us, all we need is to drop it at his fit. Thank you so much @bornblessed, I enjoyed reading through