My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? (Psalm 22:1 NIV).
Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever felt that God has
abandoned you and left you to fight on your own? The same David that writes
this in Psalm 22 writes in Psalm 27:10 “When my father and my mother forsake
me, then the LORD will take care of me”.
What changed? One moment he is in anguish and lost and the
next one he is confident and strong. David as we know always desired God and he
sought after God’s guidance. In an instant God can turn your life around. Jacob
(meaning supplanter or heel-grabber) changed to Israel (meaning God perseveres)
after an encounter with our Lord after which the twelfth tribes of Israel were
born. Saul on his way to Damascus had an encounter with Jesus and he changed
from a murderer who went after Christ followers to Paul who was on fire for the
Gospel of Jesus to the extend that he wrote two thirds of the New Testament.
Now we looked at trust and we looked at faith. Let’s look at
burdens. Peter stepped out of that boat boldly walking on water (for we walk by
faith) towards Jesus. The minute his gaze shifted to the waves and the storm he
began to sink. What did he do? He cried out to the Lord. Jesus grabbed him by
the arm and pulled him up. Sometimes we need that type of encounter where we
stop looking at the problem and turn our gaze away from the world towards Jesus
so that He can take us by the arm and pull us up.
My verse is “For my yoke is easy and my burden is light”. This
invitation from Jesus offers profound spiritual relief to those who are
exhausted. It promises that following Him replaces the crushing weight of
religious legalism and life's anxieties with a manageable, partnership-based
peace. Now what does that mean?
It means that we all carry heavy physical, emotional or spiritual
burdens and when we come to Him when we are exhausted by the pressures of life,
anxiety, or the efforts of trying to make it through each day. Paying the bills,
raising good kids, work, attacks, people and the list goes on.
Jesus invites us to take up His yoke and His teachings. His
teachings are love, grace and a relationship and by following Him we step into a
partnership where we do not carry these burdens alone anymore. He carries them
with us (He makes it light).
Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 12, “But he said to me, My
grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore
I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power
may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in
insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak,
then I am strong”.
So, on our own we will not succeed but relying on the Lord
and letting Him carry our burdens with us we will be stronger. It is in this encounter
that things shift, and we change from a worldly perspective to a God perspective.
Form being lost and broken too victorious and stronger. From feeling abandoned to
praise and worship. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us (Romans 8:37).
My dear friend, come with me as we give it all to Him in
faith and trust and let Jesus pull us from the storm into His marvellous light.
You are more than a conqueror, you are a child of God and He will never ever
ever leave you. Let Him carry your burden with you and resist the enemy’s lies.
Trust Him and you will see your storms fade and the doors open, but you need to
step into your prayer closet (room) and call Him and give it to Him. He is
right there, do it now. His grace is enough and He will step in when you call
and His peace will overflow in you.
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