It’s exciting to hear Cindee’s devotional thoughts this week! Don’t know her? Stop by the contributors page and learn a bit more about her.
I always feel like I’m on a walk. Sometimes the journey is in a big, overwhelming valley, and sometimes it is a fun, restful time on the mountaintop. When I am on these walks, I’m carrying my faithful bucket. A bucket you say?!
You know a catch-all for all the things that are swirling around in my world. Lots of stress at work, into the bucket it goes. Hard decisions at home, into the bucket it goes. Another delay in the home project that has been going on too long, into the bucket it goes. Sickness, weariness, anxieties, frustrations, into the bucket they go. And before long my bucket is so heavy and very difficult to carry.
But I’m learning If I’m still and seek the Lord, I can hear Him say “Child, give your cares to me. I am strong enough to carry it. I’m capable to handle all that is in your bucket”. My Heavenly Father wants to be so good and gracious to me, why would I continue to carry my load and reject His love for me?
But sadly I do just that when I continue to try to make it all come together, trudge through it all on
my own and think in my efforts I can fix it all. The Lord says in His Word, “Cast all your cares (anxieties, worries, concerns) on Him, for He cares about you (with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully”. My responsibility then is to obey God’s word and give it all to Him.
That doesn’t mean I give it the Lord, take it back, fret over it, and start carrying it again. It means to totally surrender, prayerfully lay it all down at my Heavenly Father’s feet and, by faith, trust and believe God’s got this! He truly does!
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”.
What a blessed promise for my daily walk.
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