Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, March 5th.

When you need rest and peace, go to Christ.

Let him lift the weight of your troubles.

Listen now and learn to let God handle your burdens.

What would you say is the most difficult and then most destructive burden to bear?

Well, you may have an opinion, say the loss of a loved one or something like that.

No, the most destructive burden to bear is the burden of guilt.

Guilt over the past, guilt over something in your life that you think you can't

handle, or guilt over something you think will never change and that you can't ever do anything

about it. What we need to ask is this, how are we to handle the burdens of our life? And I want you

to turn, if you will, to Matthew Chapter 11 and look at three verses here.

Here is God's answer, very crystal clear answer to how you and I are to handle the burdens in our life.

Listen carefully.

Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I'm

gentle and humble and heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my

burden is light. You say, well, now, wait a minute, I don't see any answer that it's here. Just listen

carefully. He says, first of all, come to me. Well, coming to him doesn't necessarily remove the burden

or alleviate it. Because you know what we do oftentimes? Here's what we do. We'll come to him

with a burden, and what we say, well, I'm just going to turn it over to him. What we do, we don't turn

it over to him. We just discuss it with him. Well, now, God, let me tell you

about this. Now, here's what I feel. I think if you would do thus and so, well, here's what you promised in your word, that you supply all of my needs according to your richness and glory. I'm bringing this to you. Thank you very much. Walk away and what? I'm heavier than I was before, because I've been in this big discussion with God, and what did I do?

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