I’m Gonna Lay Down My Burdens

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

I am amazed when I think about what was accomplished by Christ followers generations ago without our modern conveniences and technologies. Hudson Taylor is a prime example. If you don’t know the name Hudson Taylor, please do yourself a favor and read one of his many biographies available today. He truly is a hero of the Faith. Taylor led a great awakening in China which continues to this day.

In one of the biographies I read concerning him, he came to a point of deep depression because of severe deprivation and other burdens that he carried. One day he was praying for God’s strength to carry on with his mission. When he opened the Bible for his daily study time, he was in the Psalms, and his verse of study was 55:22, "Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain thee."

He told how the truth of that passage struck his heart like an arrow. He sprang to his feet, and with tears coursing down his cheeks, he cried out, "This fear-allaying truth has evaded me too long! I see it all now. If we are obeying the Lord and still run into difficulty, the heavy responsibility rests with HIM, not with us!" Then he prayed, "Lord, you shall carry all the burden! At your bidding I will go forward, leaving the results with You!"

With newly given strength and the weight of the burden lifted from his shoulders, Hudson Taylor went on to establish a great work in China.

How about it Christ followers, what are YOUR burdens today? Do you know, or have you forgotten that you can give your cares to the Lord? Peter reminded us of that when he said to cast “all your cares [anxieties] on Him, because He cares for you.” [1st Peter 5:7]

Whatever your burden, give it to/cast it upon the Lord — He will carry it — freeing you to serve Him with His peace and power!

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalms 55:22