Sunday... Having someone who can carry a heavy load for you can make such a difference.

Sunday... Having someone to carry a heavy load for you can make such a difference.

I remember the day I pulled our rental truck with all of our stuff, into the space beside the stairs that went up to the third story where our new home was. I knew there was no way I was going to unload it and carry it up to 3134. It just wasn't going to happen. I needed help.

I know some of you are feeling that same way with the heavy load you need to carry everyday. No way can you make it alone. It is just too heavy. Is that what you are feeling today?

David over in Psalm 55:22 (MSG) knows what to do with that heavy load. He says, "Pile your troubles on God's shoulders-he'll carry your load, he'll help you out. He'll never let good people topple into ruin"

I had hired three guys to come and unload the truck. After awhile they realized they weren't going to get it done in the allotted time, that it was going to take all day so they called three other guys to come and help. Now they could have kept at it themselves but it was over 100 degrees and it was a full truck and it was three stories. They knew that they needed help and they knew where they could find it so they asked for it.

And that can be our problem so many times. We know that the burden is too heavy. We see what it is doing to us, to our family but our pride gets in the way so we don't ask. "I can do this. I have what it takes." but the load is too heavy. But help is just a phone call away, it is just a prayer away.

The Amplifiied Bible puts it this way, "Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail)."

The CEV says, "We tell you what worries us, and you won't let us fall." and the last verse says what we each one need to say, what we need to say right now, "I trust you, Lord!" He is trustworthy. You can tell him your worries, you can give him your burdens, you can pile your troubles on his shoulders, and you can trust him. The MESSAGE says, "And I trust in you." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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