22. Monday Meditations: Burden
MIDWEEK RISE UP
Erika Kirk
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
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I want to embolden you today to release yourself from your burdens and the burdens of others. Fully relinquish your worries and lay them down at the feet of our loving Father. Once you set them there under His watchful care, don’t bend down to pick them back up.
Whatever the case may be, you must resist the urge to handle alone what God wants to shoulder with you. When you leave your burdens at his feet, leave them. Let them go and invite Him in. Put your fears, your burdens, your worries into the nail-scarred hands of our Savior. He is more than trustworthy and His love for you is beyond what you can comprehend.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations. Honestly, I can't even believe it's Easter week with Good Friday coming up on Friday and Easter following right afterwards. It's just unbelievable how fast time is flying. They say that the days are long, but the years are short and they are not kidding. But the word that we're going to |
| 0:21.8 | intentionally be meditating on this week is burden. We all carry burdens, and they often come in |
| 0:28.7 | different forms. The weight we carry can be our own load. It can be the burden we carry on behalf of |
| 0:33.9 | someone we love, or it can even be a weight that feels involuntarily forced upon us |
| 0:39.1 | by someone else. The load we are often schlepping around in our day-to-day lives can be |
| 0:45.2 | backbreaking. It can be heartbreaking, even can be draining, especially for individuals geared |
| 0:50.1 | towards people-pleasing. We can focus so much energy on trying to lighten the load of others |
| 0:55.3 | that we feel to see that we are continuously piling more and more onto ourselves than God ever |
| 1:01.4 | intended for us to carry. The beautiful news for us is that we aren't meant to carry burdens alone. |
| 1:07.3 | We're just not. We are told in scripture time and time again that we need to |
| 1:11.6 | cast our cares and concerns and worries upon the Lord. Whenever the topic of burdens comes up, |
| 1:18.8 | there's one biblical example that always sticks out in my mind in the Old Testament. And it's |
| 1:23.7 | when Moses is so frustrated with the burden that he feels over the Israelites. |
| 1:28.9 | God has been so good. God has delivered them from the hands of the Egyptians and is providing |
| 1:34.4 | them with manna to eat. And all they're doing is complaining. That's all they're doing. |
| 1:38.4 | They cannot stop grumbling and complaining about their situation. And I'm referring to the Israelites. And in Numbers |
| 1:45.3 | chapter 11, verse 14, Moses cries out to God and says, I cannot carry all of these people by |
| 1:52.0 | myself. The burden is just too heavy for me. And God responds to Moses. God hears his cries |
| 1:58.4 | and instructs him to summon 70 elders into the tent of meeting. And he promises that he will speak to Moses, God hears his cries and instructs him to summon 70 elders into the tent of meeting. |
| 2:02.7 | And he promises that he will speak to Moses there and that he will impart his spirit on the elders |
| 2:08.1 | so that they can also bear the burden of the people alongside Moses. |
| 2:13.2 | What's so beautiful and powerful about that passage is that God sees you. |
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