Whose Burdens are You Carrying? Pt 2

So last week I started sharing a bit about how God is our Burden Bearer. I still love it!

But you know what? There is more. There is always more with God.

Matthew 11:28-30 reads "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Here Jesus is telling us to come to him with our burdens. So not only is He keen to take our burdens, He is going to exchange them for something better. But I guess it is more like a parent with a child who has something that they shouldn't have. The parent has something good in their hands, but won't give it to them until the child surrenders what they have.

It is an exchange that takes place, a marvellous, marvellous exchange.

So I encourage you, take your burdens to God, tell Him all about it. And then, just rest in the notion that God will only give you as much as you can handle, and that He really is just doing the best for you.

Whose Burdens are You Carrying?

So a while ago I was attending a Preaching 101 thing at church, and it was really cool.
The thing was was that at the end of the time, we all got a chance to get up in front of 'rent-a-crowd' and preach for 5mins.
For me this was kinda awesome, I like getting the chance to get up and talk to people, tell my story a little bit, and talk about what God has been talking to me about. I guess that is also why I like to blog. So here goes:

Psalm 68:19 reads "Praise be to the Lord, to God our Saviour, who daily bears our burdens."

This verse has been just circling around my head the last few weeks, and when I stumbled upon it, I was just like WOW. When I found it, I found it to be so revelatory in that that was what I was experiencing in my life - A God who bears my burdens.
While on practicum there were a number of times when it just seemed like there was so much to do, and so little time to do it. But it always got done, with me remaining sane, and not being really really freaked out about it.

Burdens can just seem to overwhelm us, to try to overtake us, so that we can't think or do anything else but look at it - we stand there dumbstruck. Whether they are in our homelife, our work, our family, in making ends meet, all these parts of the puzzle can build and build until they become an overwhelming force to knock us off our feet.

But that isn't what the Psalmist is saying here - He is saying that God, who saved us, God, who is Lord, is always here to carry our burdens for us. Not just today, not just tomorrow, but daily.

Thank you God for being amazing!