Hey Gang: Of the 863
Morning Messages that I have sent in the past five years, I believe I can count
on my fingers, (or may have to take off a shoe or two) but most of the messages
have included something about me. If you
have been a faithful reader you know a great deal about me. This morning I have been struggling with a
nagging problem that I have fought with for more than year and have reminded
God of the “ask and you will receive”
verses in the Bible.
I did not receive a God-O-Gram or response to Jeremiah 31:3
where we are told “Call to Me and I will
answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know”. But I do believe I received my answer. I had the distinct feeling that He was
telling me ‘I pray seeking, but not with
a faith that moves even a tiny mole hill’.
It reminded me of the story of the little girl who was
walking hand in hand with her daddy and ask him the question, “Do you believe
that the weather forecaster was right and that it is going to rain?” His response was, “Yes.” And then she asked,
“Where is your raincoat and umbrella”. I
wonder, if in the drought areas of our country everyone wore raincoats and
carried ‘bumbershoots’, umbrella’s to
you city folks, if God would send the
rains?
We say prayer is a wonderful thing. After a quick examination I pleaded guilty to
the Lord and ask His forgiveness, for I believed in the first words of the
above Scripture: “Cast your burdens upon
he Lord” but in action my faith has
often waivered.
Now just suppose you are intensely burdened about some
need. There is no burden so worthy of our
own concentration that we should not take it to the Lord. But when we pray, do we actually commit the
burden to the Lord, or do we simply inform Him about it? There is a difference.
Prayer is not only telling the Lord about our problem; it is
also believing that He will do something about it. What must the Lord think
when we bring our burden to His throne of grace - as if we were casting all our
care upon Him, only to go on carrying the very same heaviness. And as the
burden continues, cast it on the Lord again and again.
It is only when we commit our burden to God, when we plead
His grace to help, and ask Him to take control that we can have faith that He
will take care of it and thank him for the answer. The more we trust Him, the lighter our load
will be and the quicker our answer will come.
Always the answer we seek, “not necessarily so!”
God wants to bear our burdens. The question is, do we truly want to commit
them to Him? If so, then let’s say with
the Psalmist, “When my heart is
overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I” (Psalm 61:2). Therefore we can, “Cast our burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain (us).” And we can claim the promise that “all
things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive”
(Matt. 21:22). This is real casting of our burdens upon the Lord.
Soooo, good buddies
do not wait until you are over 82 to do as the Psalmist suggest: Learn today to
“Cast all your burdens on the Lord”,
no matter how small or how big. And then
get about what God lays out as your assignment for the day. It is giving to God a bad situation and
sitting back and waiting for Him to turn it for His good, and if it for His
good it most certainly will be for our good also!
Blessings,
Gramps
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