April 16, 2005

  • Cast thy burden on the Lord

    "If we undertake work for God and get out of touch with Him, the sense of responsibility will be overwhelmingly crushing; but if we roll back on God that which He has put upon us, He takes away the sense of responsibility by bringing in the realization of Himself.

    Many workers have gone out with high courage and fine impulses, but with no intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ, and before long they are crushed.  They do not know what to do with the burden, it produces weariness, and people say- 'What an embittered end to such a beginning!'

    'Roll thy burden upon the Lord'- you have been bearing it all; deliberately put one end on the shoulders of God... Commit to God 'that He hath given thee'; not fling it off, but put it over onto Him and yourself with it, and the burden is lightened by the sense of companionship. "

    -Oswald Chambers

    "Cast thy burden upon the Lord."
    -Psalm 55:22