"We must distinguish between the burden-bearing that is right and the burden-bearing that is wrong. We ought never to bear the burden of sin or of doubt, but there are burdens placed on us by God which He does not intend to lift off, He wants us to roll them back on Him." (Oswald Chambers)
"Many workers have gone out with high courage and fine impulses, but with no intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ, and before long they are crushed. They do not know what to do with the burden, it produces weariness." (Oswald Chambers)
"Roll thy burden upon the Lord" - you have been bearing it all; deliberately put one end on the shoulders of God. "The government shall be upon His shoulder." (Oswald Chambers)
Here is the progression as it seems to me in all of this. First God does give us burdens to bear. Second we are to give those to God to help us carry, and Third that intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ is the key to understanding both one and two.
God, You know how I struggle with this particular concept. I want that intimate fellowship for my life, I set aside a time to try to make it happen, and then my mind either goes off in many directions, or I go to sleep.
I like what Dr. Del Tackett says in the Truth Project concerning prayer.
"If I really believed that I was in God's throne room talking to Him, I would not
have any trouble praying, I would have trouble leaving."
I pray that it might be so.
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