Daily Burden Bearer

June 19

(Psalm 68:18-20 NIV) “When you ascended on high, you led captives in your train; you received gifts from men, even from the rebellious -- that you, O Lord God, might dwell there. {19} Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. {20} Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.”

(Psalm 55:22 NIV) “Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.”

(Luke 11:3 NIV) ”Give us each day our daily bread.”

It is amazing that an eternal and self-sufficient God would care for the daily needs of His people. A God who lives on high cares for those who live on Earth. The Lord wants to be our daily burden bearer, but He cannot bear something we do not allow Him to carry. He cannot carry something we refuse to give to Him. The Lord will not only supply our daily bread if we ask Him, He will daily bear our burdens if we will just surrender them to Him. So if your knees are buckling under the weight of everything you are trying to carry, why not give it all to Jesus. If Christ carried the sins of the world on His shoulders when He went to the cross, surely he can carry your daily burdens. The only thing standing in the way of relief is your stubborn refusal to cast your cares upon the Lord who so generously volunteers to carry them. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day