Psalms 55:22: “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to he moved.”
We need never suffer from insupportable burdens when the Lord has told us to cast them upon Him, and He will sustain us. But so many times after we have turned our burdens over to Him we unconsciously take them back again. This does not mean, of course, that we need have no concern whatsoever about our daily affairs, but that we need have no Anxious concern about them. After we have done all that we can do to help ourselves, we must then wait patiently for God to finish the work.
When we think that we have more burdens than anybody else could possibly have, let us call to mind the story of the man who thought he had the heaviest cross in the world. An angel placed a number of crosses before him and told him that he might choose one of them instead of his own. But, after trying them all, he decided he preferred his own and took it up without further complaint.
God knows what is needed to change a child of His from a self-centered, perhaps unlovely person into one who will reflect the tenderness and compassion of Jesus Christ. And how indeed could we sympathize with the tribulations of others if we had not suffered from them ourselves? When we think of the blind, the lame, the crippled, and countless others with such heavy burdens to bear, our cross in comparison will sink into insignificance, we will realize how much we have to be thankful for, and praise God every day for our many blessings.
Why falter in our daily task,
Why bow beneath the load,
Why toil until our courage fails
Upon a rocky road?
Let us cast our burdens on the Lord.
Who has promised to sustain,
And when we see His face some day,
All things shall he made plain.
Romans 8: 38, 39: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,” ”Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.”
Let us for a moment analyze these amazing verses. Death cannot separate us from the love of God, because He goes with us even there (Psalms 23:4). Life, with all its sorrows and perplexities need not alienate us, for He has invited us to cast our burdens upon Him (Psalm 55:22). Angels will never come between us, for they are commissioned to watch over and deliver the saints in time of trial (Psalms 34:7 ) . Principalities and powers, regardless of how corrupt and mighty they may be, can never estrange us to kill the body (Matthew 10:28). It is impossible for things present, regardless of their frustrations and discouragement, to keep us from God if we seek Him to help us. We know that things to come will unite us, for His followers will some day be ever present with Him. Neither height nor depth can keep us from Him. We may be miles in the air in the mightiest jet plane, or deep in the sea in a submarine, but Jesus will take control and be “closer than hands or feet . “The words “any other creature” in this text are comprehensive, and seem to cover everything that has not been mentioned, so we need have no fear of God’s love being taken from us.
Doubt and lack of faith may exclude us from close relationship with God, but His love is never failing, and we have only to return to Him in sincerity and faith to be received into fellowship again. This is one of the most precious promises in the Bible, and we should rejoice fully, for absolutely nothing except a complete repudiation of God can separate us from His love.
Death cannot part us from Jesus,
Nor great and mighty powers,
Angels can never constrain us
From God’s love that is ours.
No disaster will estrange us,
No foes, beneath, above,
It is only turning from Him
That will alienate His love.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One