By John Foll, Written between 04/30/2017 and 05/02/2017.
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“Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.” Psalm 55:22 NASB.
Who are the righteous? Those that cast there burdens upon the LORD. What burdens? All of their burdens, all their sins, worries and guilt. Anyone who does not cast all of their burdens upon the Lord hopes in vain for peace, hope, faith, joy, love and salvation, for they trust not completely in God. Those that continue on like this, casting not all of their burdens on Him will eventually get weighed down with guilt and worry and not be able to rise above it, or become too hardened to move. Think that we are reasoning in circles here? It may appear thus to those who are not schooled in the science of faith, but such is not the case. Our theme text from Psalms tells the whole story! It gives a simple formula for how you can be righteous and never be shaken; it contains the promise that if you cast your burden upon the Lord that He will sustain you.
The Bible declares cursed be the man or woman that trusts in their own strength. “Thus says the LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.” Jeremiah 17:5 NASB. From this it is implied that those who trust in themselves or to mankind are really turning from God. Those whose heart turns away from the Lord, those who trust in their own strength, are turning away from God and will be cursed by Him unless they turn back to Him.
When Jesus was in the wilderness and had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, the tempter tempted Him to turn the stones into bread: Then Jesus ‘answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'”’ Matthew 4:4 NASB. Thus Jesus showed His true followers until the end of time that they were not to trust in the works of their hands or to their skill or ability to reason, to feed themselves and save themselves, but to wholly trust in God and obey all of His commands in the Bible. (The hands of those who trust in themselves fashion idols that they bow down to – Exodus 20:4-6; Isaiah 44:13-20). To trust in yourself is folly. It’s an illusion that you are able to get up in the morning, go to work, earn your living and pay for your own bread, clothing, lodging, and take care of yourself, family and loved ones by yourself apart from God. You could do none of these things without God. So why not remember your creator and redeemer, and praise Him for His marvelous works, as well as His mercy and blessings for you? You could not even have life and breath without Him. Ecclesiastes 12:1; Genesis 2:7. Doesn’t He deserve your praise, honor, and devotion? How can you not love Him? He has provided for all of your needs, salvation and happiness!
Say not that you are able to earn your own bread and your own salvation, for without God you can do nothing. While it is true that if you are a diligent worker you can earn your bread, you can not do it apart from God. Jesus said, ‘apart from Me you can do nothing.’ John 15:5 NASB. Do not fashion an idol out of your hands from your work or ability and bow down to them, saying that this is what you did and what you earned. Apart from God, His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit you can literally do nothing. You owe everything to God. So why not give Him your heart, confess your sins, give Him your guilt, burdens, and worries, casting them all on Him. And He will never allow you to be shaken! Cast on Jesus all of your cares and worries. Let Him free you! “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” John 8:36 KJV.
Jesus died on the cross that He might bear your burdens. Why not take Him up on His offer? Of Jesus the Bible declares: “Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” Isaiah 53:4 NASB. And of Jesus, Peter declares: “For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.” 1 Peter 2:21-25 NASB. Yes, we were continually straying like sheep until He brought us back to the fold of the house of God again. If you would desire to stop straying from Him, then you must cast all of your burdens upon Him, and allow Him to carry all of your griefs, sorrow, worry, doubts, despair, shame, guilt, anger, unhappiness, and unfulfilled duties. The load is too heavy for you to bear and will destroy you if you do not cast them, all of them, on Jesus. So cast all of your burdens, cares and worries upon Him, and let Him free you! He will be happy to help you and bear your burdens for you! He says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour 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.” Matthew 11:28-30 KJV. Yes, Jesus says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 NASB. Just accept the yoke of His love, and let Him take the weight of all of your sins and burdens! For His yoke is easy and His burden is light! No need to carry the weight of any of your sins or worries anymore; worries that you are not good enough to be saved and that you are a failure. Cast on Him all of your burdens of whether your children and loved ones will be saved: He greatly loves them too and is doing His best to help them, without violating their power of choice. Casting your burdens upon the Lord is the secret of how to be righteous. This is the secret of how not to be shaken. There is no reason for you to stagger under the weight of your burdens anymore when He will gladly bear them for you! He loves you!
Jesus said, “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” Matthew 7:24-27 KJV. Those who continue to build their house upon the sand of their own devising, merit, and works, and trust to their own ability to earn their bread, when the rains come and the wind blows, they will be washed away, and great will be their fall. But those who heed Jesus invitation to cast their burdens upon Him, are building their house upon the rock, and when the floods come and the winds blow, their house will stand, as long as they keep casting their burdens upon Him and depending on Him alone for their salvation! Those that cast their burdens upon the Lord do not trust in vain; they never will be shaken, as long as they continue to trust in Him: For they have built on the rock, upon the word of God, Jesus. He is our pledge or surety that His Father will save us and supply all of our needs. Philippians 4:19; Hebrews 7:22. And it is impossible for God to lie. Hebrews 6:18. So you can be sure that He will keep all of His promises to you, if you keep casting your burdens upon Him.
Those who continue to cast their burdens upon Jesus will be given His righteousness, and at the end of time, when He comes back in the clouds with great power and great glory (Matthew 24:30) they will say, ‘This is our God who we have waited for, He has come back to save us just like He promised!’ as it tells us in Isaiah 25:9 KJV paraphrase. He has preserved us through “the shaking”, for He cannot lose His hold on His own!
Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." John 10:27-29 NASB.
So cast all of your burdens upon the Lord! Amen!
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© Copyright 2017 John Foll
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“Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.” Psalm 55:22 NASB.
Who are the righteous? Those that cast there burdens upon the LORD. What burdens? All of their burdens, all their sins, worries and guilt. Anyone who does not cast all of their burdens upon the Lord hopes in vain for peace, hope, faith, joy, love and salvation, for they trust not completely in God. Those that continue on like this, casting not all of their burdens on Him will eventually get weighed down with guilt and worry and not be able to rise above it, or become too hardened to move. Think that we are reasoning in circles here? It may appear thus to those who are not schooled in the science of faith, but such is not the case. Our theme text from Psalms tells the whole story! It gives a simple formula for how you can be righteous and never be shaken; it contains the promise that if you cast your burden upon the Lord that He will sustain you.
The Bible declares cursed be the man or woman that trusts in their own strength. “Thus says the LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD.” Jeremiah 17:5 NASB. From this it is implied that those who trust in themselves or to mankind are really turning from God. Those whose heart turns away from the Lord, those who trust in their own strength, are turning away from God and will be cursed by Him unless they turn back to Him.
When Jesus was in the wilderness and had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, the tempter tempted Him to turn the stones into bread: Then Jesus ‘answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'”’ Matthew 4:4 NASB. Thus Jesus showed His true followers until the end of time that they were not to trust in the works of their hands or to their skill or ability to reason, to feed themselves and save themselves, but to wholly trust in God and obey all of His commands in the Bible. (The hands of those who trust in themselves fashion idols that they bow down to – Exodus 20:4-6; Isaiah 44:13-20). To trust in yourself is folly. It’s an illusion that you are able to get up in the morning, go to work, earn your living and pay for your own bread, clothing, lodging, and take care of yourself, family and loved ones by yourself apart from God. You could do none of these things without God. So why not remember your creator and redeemer, and praise Him for His marvelous works, as well as His mercy and blessings for you? You could not even have life and breath without Him. Ecclesiastes 12:1; Genesis 2:7. Doesn’t He deserve your praise, honor, and devotion? How can you not love Him? He has provided for all of your needs, salvation and happiness!
Say not that you are able to earn your own bread and your own salvation, for without God you can do nothing. While it is true that if you are a diligent worker you can earn your bread, you can not do it apart from God. Jesus said, ‘apart from Me you can do nothing.’ John 15:5 NASB. Do not fashion an idol out of your hands from your work or ability and bow down to them, saying that this is what you did and what you earned. Apart from God, His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit you can literally do nothing. You owe everything to God. So why not give Him your heart, confess your sins, give Him your guilt, burdens, and worries, casting them all on Him. And He will never allow you to be shaken! Cast on Jesus all of your cares and worries. Let Him free you! “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” John 8:36 KJV.
Jesus died on the cross that He might bear your burdens. Why not take Him up on His offer? Of Jesus the Bible declares: “Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” Isaiah 53:4 NASB. And of Jesus, Peter declares: “For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.” 1 Peter 2:21-25 NASB. Yes, we were continually straying like sheep until He brought us back to the fold of the house of God again. If you would desire to stop straying from Him, then you must cast all of your burdens upon Him, and allow Him to carry all of your griefs, sorrow, worry, doubts, despair, shame, guilt, anger, unhappiness, and unfulfilled duties. The load is too heavy for you to bear and will destroy you if you do not cast them, all of them, on Jesus. So cast all of your burdens, cares and worries upon Him, and let Him free you! He will be happy to help you and bear your burdens for you! He says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour 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.” Matthew 11:28-30 KJV. Yes, Jesus says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 NASB. Just accept the yoke of His love, and let Him take the weight of all of your sins and burdens! For His yoke is easy and His burden is light! No need to carry the weight of any of your sins or worries anymore; worries that you are not good enough to be saved and that you are a failure. Cast on Him all of your burdens of whether your children and loved ones will be saved: He greatly loves them too and is doing His best to help them, without violating their power of choice. Casting your burdens upon the Lord is the secret of how to be righteous. This is the secret of how not to be shaken. There is no reason for you to stagger under the weight of your burdens anymore when He will gladly bear them for you! He loves you!
Jesus said, “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” Matthew 7:24-27 KJV. Those who continue to build their house upon the sand of their own devising, merit, and works, and trust to their own ability to earn their bread, when the rains come and the wind blows, they will be washed away, and great will be their fall. But those who heed Jesus invitation to cast their burdens upon Him, are building their house upon the rock, and when the floods come and the winds blow, their house will stand, as long as they keep casting their burdens upon Him and depending on Him alone for their salvation! Those that cast their burdens upon the Lord do not trust in vain; they never will be shaken, as long as they continue to trust in Him: For they have built on the rock, upon the word of God, Jesus. He is our pledge or surety that His Father will save us and supply all of our needs. Philippians 4:19; Hebrews 7:22. And it is impossible for God to lie. Hebrews 6:18. So you can be sure that He will keep all of His promises to you, if you keep casting your burdens upon Him.
Those who continue to cast their burdens upon Jesus will be given His righteousness, and at the end of time, when He comes back in the clouds with great power and great glory (Matthew 24:30) they will say, ‘This is our God who we have waited for, He has come back to save us just like He promised!’ as it tells us in Isaiah 25:9 KJV paraphrase. He has preserved us through “the shaking”, for He cannot lose His hold on His own!
Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." John 10:27-29 NASB.
So cast all of your burdens upon the Lord! Amen!
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