The Greatest Weightlifter of All Time. Give Him your Burden.

How do we cast our burden on the Lord? Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

People can carry all kinds of burdens: Guilt, sorrows, worries, loss, loneliness, disappointments. It’s hard – being loaded up, being weighed down…

The Word of God says: Proverbs 12:25 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

John Bunyan wrote “Pilgrim’s progress”, a story of Pilgrim – and his journey, from his home in the City of Destruction, to the Heavenly City. The pilgrim carried a load… It pictured his sense of his sin, and his guilt…

David described his sin: Psalm 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Bunyan writes how the Word opened Pilgrim’s eyes… To sense the awful weight of his sinfulness…

The greatest burden of all is SIN - the guilt, the shame of it.

Here’s a good place to start to get rid of such burdens. Realise your need. The burden of sin. Romans 7:13 …sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

A Puritan writer Ralph Venning wrote a book in 1669 called "SIN, THE PLAGUE OF PLAGUES" – or “The Sinfulness of Sin”. He tells of the exceeding sinfulness of sin. It is at its heart a rebellion against God. Venning describes how we ought to see sin for what it is: “a most hideous, devilish and hellish thing, the most wicked, mischievous, virulent, villainous and deadly thing that ever was.”

Sin degrades and defiles man. The folly of it. The misery of it. In contrast, there's the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We should hate sin. Some don’t ever get the pressing sense of it. The conviction of it. When we realise our burden we can also realise the One who is the Burden bearer.

Let us see our great need of the Saviour, the only One who can release us from it. Of Him it is said, Isaiah 53, Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows… the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Pilgrim, in Bunyan’s story, came to realise the weight of his burden of sin. As pilgrim came by the cross, his great burden fell from his shoulders.

The Lord Jesus invites us to yield our burden to Him. Matthew 11:28-30 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (29) 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. (30) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

He beckons - He will take off your heavy load. Will you give Him your burden? He lovingly and willingly takes our cares. Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

How do you cast it? Go to Him. In prayer. Call on the Lord from your pit. Call out, unto Him, from your heart. Cast thy burden. Cast it. Throw it into His arms. He will catch it. He will carry it. He wants you to yield to Him your burden.

Know God will sustain you, whatever it is. He is the deliverer and sustainer of His people. Get rid of that burden. Throw that burden upon the Lord!

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. He shall sustain thee and "He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”

Our Lord bore the guilt of our sin. The Lord Jesus took upon himself all the sin – all the evil. Every bit. Every part of it.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us - so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Feel the weight of it. The exceeding sinfulness of your sin. The guilt of it. The load of it. The misery of it.

God tells us, Hebrews 12:1, “…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us…" See it for what it is. A weight. You are weighed down. You must release it.

People are carrying burdens of guilt and regret. Some people are loaded down and we need to come alongside them. Let’s help others who are burdened and share with them in prayer and care.

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

There is a great burden bearer. A load lifter. You can give your heaviest burdens unto Him.
Your burdens
Your anxieties
Your care
Your guilt

Lay them upon the burden bearer. Bring them to Him in prayer… No burden is too big for God. No load too much for Him to carry.

Psalm 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

He shall keep you. He shall see you through. He shall help you to keep standing.

Go to the Word - let His promises carry you through… Isaiah 41:13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Psalms 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

He shall sustain thee.