To Be...A Burden Bearer
It was a double whammy day scripture wise. God knew my heart was heavy with the burdens I've been asked to confidentially carry, so he plopped this passage in front of me twice that day.
"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, 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." Matthew 11:28-10
"Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken." Psalm 55:22
We are all carrying them for someone. The prayer requests that are too painful to share in big groups because of fear, shame or lack of faith. The medical diagnosis that you haven't quite accepted and don't know how you want to go forward facing, the marital problems that you are praying will be resolved and know it's better not to air dirty laundry, the longing in your heart for a mate or a child and questions of why God hasn't given you those things, the embarrassment that comes with financial strains we've gotten ourselves into...and on and on. It helps to have a confidential burden bearer! And that's Biblical.
"Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ." Galatians 6:2
Finding a true confident can be difficult. Betrayal is like a bad burn! But we have the ultimate confidant in Jesus and He walks before us in majestic ways before every kind of mess facing us.
Now that's a reason to say, "Hallelujah!"
"Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation." Pslam 68:19
