Casting a burden upon the Lord means you turn the burden over and release it to Him. Every burden has a weight, and some are heavier than others. The Lord knows we can only carry a burden for a short amount of time before we begin to slip and fall under the weight of it. God calls us to bear one another’s burdens only long enough to bring them to Him. Remember, the Lord will not put more on you than you can carry.
If you are weary, it is time to cast your burden upon the Lord. He says, “Come unto me all ye that are weak and heavy laden (weighted down) and I will give you rest, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. As you rest, learn of me, and find rest for your soul.”
You will know you have cast the burden down when you begin to experience His rest. So why not enter into His rest today?
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; prayer, that goeth not out for feigned lips.”
(Psalms 16:11)
“Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.”
(Psalms 17:5)
As we travel down the path of life, the Lord will make the path very clear. The right path of life leads you to do what is right. You know you are on the right path by the peace that comes as you choose to do what is right. Sin draws you away from God’s presence and the right path. When you continue in sin, you travel down a path farther and farther away from God. You feel lost and alone, far away from home. The steps to get back home can be found in His Word.
The Psalmist declares “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” (Psalms 119:105)
Just like Adam, we still run and hide from God when we feel guilt or shame. When we have sinned, we need to run toward Him for forgiveness. We need to say, as David did, “I said, Lord, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned” (Psalm 41:4). We are all, at times, like a prodigal son that needs to run back home. As we repent, we begin walking on the right path to our Heavenly Father, who is always waiting at the door for us with His arms open wide to receive us.
Pray and ask God to help you to get back on the right path that will lead you home.
For You make him to be blessed and a blessing forever; You make him exceedingly glad with the joy of Your presence. Psalm 21:6 Amp.
It is God that makes us to be blessed! David said in Psalm 21:6, that God actually makes you to be blessed. He makes or rather He prepares you to receive His blessings. Think about it, right now He is preparing you for His blessings.
You are like a storehouse that He must prepare to pour his blessings into. If you are a little four room house, He may require you expand to receive a blessing. You can’t have the “us four and no more” mentality and expect God to bless you beyond where you presently are. It could be that where you are right now in your thinking is not large enough to hold all the blessings God has planned for you.
Think of all the men of old who were blessed by God such as: David, Joseph, and Abraham. They had to expand. Each of these great men was blessed by God, but each one was blessed in a different way. They had to obey God in order to be prepared for the blessings. Their storehouse had to be prepared so they would properly manage blessings when they were poured out.
We are always blessed by God so we can keep the blessings flowing and be a blessing to God’s people. If you are blessed by God, as Joseph was blessed, it means you must learn how to govern the blessing and release it to God’s people at the appointed time. Blessings from God indicate He has entrusted you with something, and all He asks of you is to be a good steward and properly maintain the blessing.
When God abundantly blesses someone, they are a storehouse on earth where God places His blessings. He doesn’t bless us just so we will pile up the blessings and say, “look at me.” He blesses us so He can use us to pour out blessings to others. In Psalm 21:6, as we bless others the flow of God’s blessing continue to flow to us and we are a blessing forever. “Give and it shall be given to you.”
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:38 (New International Version)
Be a blessing to others with the blessings God has entrusted you with.
“Now I say that an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he is Lord of all.” Galatians 4:1
Like going to any new destination, you will need a vehicle to get you to the Father’s House; the only vehicle that will get you there is the vehicle of faith. It is by faith that we receive the promises of God.
And it’s only by faith that we enter into the Father’s House, the Big House where we receive our full inheritance. By faith you take your rightful place as a son or daughter and a joint-heir with Christ. As you read the Word and by faith receive the Word as Truth, you will find yourself dwelling in a new place, a higher place, high above the old life you once lived.
Galatians 4:1 says as long as we are children, we are as servants or as slaves, but when we put away the childish way of thinking—the old lies—we can by faith receive our identity and full inheritance.
Before faith, you are still a child—“thinking, feeling, and acting like a child”—living in the little house (I Corinthians 13:11). Now is the time to get into the vehicle of faith and travel to the Father’s House, where your full inheritance awaits you. You are no longer a servant or a slave; you have been redeemed and you are now an heir, a child of God, and a joint-heir with Jesus Christ.
“God sent forth His son… to redeem them that were under the law, that they might receive the adoption of sons. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 4:4, 5, 7)
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!” (Romans 8:14-15, Amplified).
“That we may do those good works which God predestined for us…” Eph 2: 10
God has preordained and planned before hand what your purpose is on the earth. And He has used the situations in your life up to this very moment to teach you and prepare you for His purposes.
We can’t see clearly what God sees. It is only after we pass through a situation that we see it clearly. We can then look down from a higher perspective and see what good came out of it, what we learned, and how God will use it. I know how it is to be in the middle of a bad situation. We wonder what good thing could possibly come out of this! At that point, we can not see what God sees. That is why all along the way and in every situation, we must learn to listen to His voice. His ways are so much higher than our ways. He has a plan that we can’t see so we must listen to His voice so we will choose the right way, the high way.
I believe God sets up situations just for learning purposes. He wants us to learn from our past mistakes, so we will make different choices and take the right path the next time. Paul said that if we take the path which He planned ahead of time, we will live the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live. This does not mean that once we learn to walk on the highway, we will not encounter difficult situations. It does mean that we will always have a clear path to walk on during those difficult times. That’s why we go through hard times so we can learn how to identify God ways and God’s path that leads us though the valleys and hardships of life.
Casting a burden upon the Lord means you turn the burden over and release it to Him. Every burden has a weight, and some are heavier than others. The Lord knows we can only carry a burden for a short amount of time before we begin to slip and fall under the weight of it. God calls us to bear one another’s burdens only long enough to bring them to Him. Remember, the Lord will not put more on you than you can carry.
