Skip to main content

Carrying a heavy burden?

 

Today, I attended a women’s fellowship meeting at my place of worship. We had been asked to take something special and be ready to tell why it was special. I had taken our family Bible, which is around 170 years old. I love this Bible. It reminds me of generations of my family who worshipped God. It is the Brown Self-interpreting Family Bible, based on the King James Version with a vast amount of information, annotations, and comments by Rev John Brown, a Presbyterian Minister who died in 1787. It is a fascinating read, and I still have much to study in it.

However, it is extremely heavy! I have a special box I keep it in to preserve it, and it was ideal for carrying, but I needed help with opening the door. Our Minister stopped me for a chat on the way, with the box growing heavier and heavier in my arms.

It led me to reflect on the heavy burdens we often take on ourselves; burdens we were never supposed to carry. A poem from my childhood days called The Burden Bearer, came to mind.

Are you carrying burdens today, dear friends? It is time to let them go. Place them in the hands of the Burden Bearer. Trust God to provide for every need; trust God to be involved in all your difficult situations; trust God to take your cares and anxieties upon His shoulders; trust God to be the Sovereign God that He is even during these difficult times of extreme weather events, wars, and disease. Nothing ever surprises Him, and He will use everything according to His will and to strengthen your faith.

God bless you each, no matter what is happening for you today. May you experience God’s abundant peace as you lay it all in His hands.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Planting Seeds

  Carrying on from last week, I was wondering how I am sowing seeds. I realised that we can all sow seeds everywhere we go. I don’t go out that often actually, I don’t belong to any secular groups but I can still be responsive to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Under his leading I made a determined effort to get to know the names of all the staff at my two favourite cafés that I visit at least weekly. I ask about their families; I support where I can. My friends and I find opportunities to give them all a little gift of chocolate and a card with a verse of scripture written on it. They all know we are Christians. I guess that might be called planting seeds. I converse with the supermarket checkout operators just to have a chance to bring a blessing to them. Some of them now know I am a Christian. I can easily bring God into conversations with unsaved family members, neighbours and strangers I stop and talk to in the park—with the leading of the Holy Spirit. I do not adopt a heavy...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Importance of Unity

  What do you do when you think the Pastor or Senior Leadership Team have got it wrong! A friend was recently talking about a decision made by our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) including the Pastor. We are a small church community, so decisions affect every member there. However, unless directly involved in a programme or initiative the SLT do not know how a decision they make might impact on the on-the-ground day-to-day running of that programme or initiative. It is important to talk to those involved to get their perspective and even in a small church this might not necessarily happen. Having said that, our SLT are generally very good at consulting. So, what do you do if you think it’s an unwise decision? This will of course depend on size of the church, whether the Pastor is a good listener and is prepared to talk about it and I’m sure, many other factors. My perspective is that I do not want to be talking about the Pastor behind his back. I do not want to gossip about him ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Meeting in Fellowship

  This morning we had one of our fortnightly women’s meetings, called WOF! No, not Warrant of Fitness, although we could all do with a Warrant of Fitness from time to time to see how our spiritual walk is going. It stands for Women of Fellowship. We start with a hot drink and some home baking to eat, with some fruit for those who seek to be a little healthier. Then our leader, one of our pastors, introduces the morning. Following that there is something different each week. We have had a ‘spiritual kit’ handed to us and a discussion of each object, we had a morning to bring something special and show each other while telling the story of why it was special, there may be a speaker or a craft. This morning there was a word game and we each received a journal with encouragement to start a prayer journal. Now I am definitely not a ‘game’ or a ‘craft’ person so those times can seem a little boring to me. However, there is always good fellowship and an opportunity to get to know another ...
Post a Comment
Read more