“Who Daily …”
Daily, not weekly, monthly, occasionally, yearly or maybe, but “daily!” Every day irrespective of the day, but every day, 365 days a year as long as you live – Count on it that every day of your life that God will DAILY, without hesitation or reluctance or weariness or inability but assuredly, wholeheartedly competently, compassionately and lovingly bear your burdens whatever they be -DAILY! The Hebrew has it empahtically,”Day by day.”
“Burdens“
…means to, “lay a load upon us, literally, load to us …Loading … Oppression…” One writer puts it this way,”If any one put a burden on us God is our Help .” -{Ellicott} God who is our salvation, rescues, undertakes for us and raises the burdens off us! What comfort, what love, what Hope, what a God He is that He would take personal and loving interest in you, second by second day by day God is concerned about you.
“The Lord… “
It is The Lord who undertakes. The name refers to Supremacy and Dominion, Rule and dignity are the predominant ideas in the word “Lord.” What comfort that the Highest Authority, Ruler over all, whose authority is complete and over all His creation, it is this One who undertakes and stoops to elevate His by bearing the burdens of ALL who trust Him. The Lord carries people’s many burdens including yours. He has been doing it for centuries and continues to do so and this effortlessly. It does not exhaust His strength, His love, His power, but it is His delight to do so, that you may know Him more intimately and understand something of His love for you! If we never had burdens we would never know the experience of His loving care for us in this are of our lives. Our burdens re opportunities to know Him better and His delivering power for us. What comfort, what love, what Hope, what a God He is that He would take personal, intimate and loving interest in you, second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, God is intimately aware and devotedly concerned for you!
The Response?
Bless Him! Praise Him -Speak well of Him who DAILY bears your burdens. Bow in worship of Him in your heart, adore Him and cast your cares continually upon Him who cares for you, for it is the LORD of all… who DAILY bears your burdens! “Why cast down o my soul, put your trust in God!” Believers are often compared to sheep in the Scriptures. Sheep were never meant to carry loads, they were not made to do so and neither are you! This does not mean we live trouble free lives, but when the burdens of life come we must by faith role them on the LORD who alone can carry them and give us peace of mind and heart.{Read Philippians 4:6, 1 Peter 5:7)
HOW DO YOU GIVE GOD YOUR BURDENS?
BY FAITH- turn to Him and tell Him what is wearing you down, By faith say you are now releasing the situation into His loving care as you are obeying Him in “casting all of your cares on Him because He cares for you. -{Read 1 Peter 5:7}. Give them to Him as we were not meant to carry anxieties, and He tells us to “cast” them on Him. Fling them off like you would a poisonous snake that would seek to land on you. You wouldn’t cuddle it, deliberate over it. You would immediately “fling” it away from you, for you are knowledgeable enough to know it is dangerous, harmful. You would be quick, and yet how slow we are to fling our burdens upon Him who cares for us and can carry them and lift them off us emotionally, mentally. We have experience of being burdened down, oppressed to some degree emotionally, mentally and yet when the temptation arise with be it anxieties, or burdens instead of immediately turning to Him and by faith giving it to Him, we often tend to hold onto it. Seems crazy. It is. It is when we have a loving Heavenly Father who cares for us. For you. For me. By faith entrust yourself to HIM. Entrust the burden to Him and receive from Him peace. {Read Phil 4:7,9}.
REMIND HIM, {not that He forgets} that He is the God who has said, He daily bears our burdens. By faith hold Him to His Word. “Lord YOU HAVE SAID…” and in obedience to what You have said, I am intentionally and completely handing this weight, burden over to you. I am trusting You to fulfill Your WORD to me. I thank You, You cannot lie. You are Able. You will do what You have said, Thank You!”
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE THOUGHT COMES BACK TO MIND?
REMIND YOURSELF– You have given that specifically to the LORD. The evil one will shoot “fiery arrows” at you but you can stand and extinguish those “fiery arrows” by holding up the Shield Of Faith. His Word,”Lord You have said, and I am Trusting You to completely Undertake” is the attitude to be maintained!
God intervenes. He cares for you. He carry’s your burdens and our response is to be one of blessing Him. Speak well of Him. Praise Him and tell others of the Lord who daily bears your burdens.
TELL OTHERS OF HOW GOD MEETS YOU? CALL THEM TO TRUST HIM.
How can you handle such problems and burdens someone may ask you? The truth is the Lord of heaven and earth enables you to cast them on Him and indeed He bears your loads. He undertakes for you. He imparts to you His grace, strength, power, and indeed the knowing He undertakes for you on a daily, personal level lifts, elevates the heart to Bless, Praise, Speak well of Him because of the reality of His undertaking for you personally. God is not afar off but is near and you have experienced His love again and again and again, “In Christ!”
I am reminded of the words of the old hymn,
“I CAST ALL MY CARES UPON YOU
I LAY ALL OF MY BURDENS,
DOWN AT YOUR FEET
ANYTIME, I DON’T KNOW
JUST WHAT TO DO,
I JUST CAST ALL MY CARES
UPON YOU.”
What a mighty God He is. What a wonderful, gracious and powerful and personal Lord He is, and you have known Him to be and He will continually to be to you. For He is faithful. Daily Burden bearer, He is…Praise Him…Share of Him to others to encourage them and testify to Him!
APPLICATION
1. MEMORIZE AND MEDITATE on Psalm 68:19. Write it out on a 3 by 5 card. Put in a prominent place you can see. Perhaps on your bathroom mirror, or carry in your possession and when you have time read word by word, and Meditate on each one, each phrase and the whole verse. If you were to do this for seven days you will find you will become familiar with the Verse and the God whose verse it is!
2. PRAISE AND PRAY. Use this verse to Bless, which means to “speak well of” the LORD in your praying Worship Him that He is your God who daily bears your Burdens!
3. PRAY THIS VERSE FOR YOURSELF, TO LEARN TO IMMEDIATELY respond to God in faith and thank Him that He carries your Burdens.
4. PRAY FOR OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THIS VERSE with someone to encourage them TO “SPEAK WELL OF THE LORD.”
Your LORD is Your Personal Daily Burden Bearer!