When a person comes into your life bringing
their bag of problems with them, when a person carries grief and stress and
pain into your world, when a person causes chaos over which you have no
control, what do you do?
How do you deal with the pressure of
painful encounters and fragmented relationships? With angry, rebellious people?
With divorce, sickness, bitterness, and death? With loneliness? With the
circumstance that you never dreamed would be a part of your life? With the
weight of the burden that has worn out your emotions and left you physically exhausted?
How do you handle it?
The Bible, our love letter, tells us in
Psalm 55:22, “Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain you.” Let’s
paraphrase that: “Get rid of that burden; throw it on the Lord; fling it at His
feet. Don’t sneak up to give it to Him. To cast means to throw forcefully. He
promises that He will take care of you, sustain you; He promises to be your
sustenance.”
What sort of sustenance is the psalmist
talking about here? I need emotional sustenance. Emotional relief. I need
stability, strength, and wisdom. I need peace, the therapy of rest. I need the
calmness that comes when I know that everything is under the control of an
authority figure, someone I can trust, someone who knows what to do. That’s
exactly the sort of sustenance Psalm 55:22 is talking about.
Anabel Gillham
The Confident Woman, Harvest House, 1993
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