Psalm 55:22
“Cast your burden on the lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.”
The key word in this passage is burden. What is a burden? For most of us, the definition is whatever is bringing us down. The world weighs us down with so many negative things. Bills, debt, disease, work, and war are just some of the worries that keep our focus off of God. But are all of our burdens negative?
What about our hopes, our dreams, our plans, our children and their future? Burdens are not just the negative parts of our life, but also the positive parts that stand in the way of getting to know God. God calls us to put all, everything on God, not just the issues and items that depress us, but also all that inspire us. You see, this is the raw material God can use to bless the world, so casting those burdens on God is seeking to reconcile to God’s plan. On the TV show “American Picker” what I see as a junk pile the pickers call “collections”. In that pile is trash and treasure, and the pickers go through and seek or advise on what to do with the stuff.
Our burdens consist of trash and treasure, Give them both to God and let God pick through all of it to bring out the best in our lives. Let go and Let God.
Amen
