Roll Your Burden

The house is a mess, the dishes need to be done, lots of unpacking and sorting and cleaning that needs to be done, but I sit and I am trying to get my devotions back on track.  The kids are both napping at the same time (how rare)--so this is the perfect time to get everything done, but yet I do nothing but try and replenish my soul, because I am so thirsty and so tired and so confused.

I am trying to get a schedule going so that I can do my devotions and still keep up with the everyday tasks of running a household and being a mother, wife, woman of God, but it is so hard. This morning I started and woke up a half hour later than what I wanted but nonetheless, the kids slept and I could read the Bible and talk to the Lord in peace and quiet.  John was also up and took the time to read as well and then spent some time with his little girl.  John immediately came to me and asked me what I read.  He has been studying the book of Luke, but decided to read something different today.  He kept feeling like he needed to go back to the book of Luke and read where he really was supposed to read and lone behold the verses were all on casting our anxieties, our burdens to the Lord.  I have these verses written on little cue cards and they are usually posted to the fridge.  I am a worry wart and I have not mastered the art of casting my anxieties onto the Lord.  We have been through a few tough weeks (ahh what am I saying I mean years!) and sometimes we just wonder why and where do we go next.  What a wake up call.

So now I sit here in silence and I am reflecting on the Lord and where he wants to lead me.  So why am I blogging now, well I was going to do a two month post for Genesis (one of the many things I am behind on), but I felt the need to check out my new favourite blog that has been a huge blessing in my life lately.   I was looking for resources on prayer and this is what I came upon:  (I think maybe the Lord is speaking to me about this matter---I really have a tough time with this, but it is something that I will be fervent in prayer on!)---and no I am not sure why I felt the need to post this on my blog, but perhaps you too may find this encouraging??

For over ten years I’ve had this verse and comments by Charles Spurgeon on a scrap of paper taped to my computer monitor at work or pinned to my bulletin board at home. If your soul is burdened today (especially you battle-weary moms) I pray these words encourage you to rest in God.

“Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.” Psalm 37:5-6

“Commit your way” literally means to “roll your burden” and so Mr. Spurgeon urges us to:

"Roll the whole burden of life upon the Lord. Leave with Jehovah not thy present fretfulness merely, but all thy cares; in fact, submit the whole tenor of thy way to him. Cast away anxiety, resign thy will, submit thy judgment, leave all with the God of all....The ploughman sows and harrows, and then leaves the harvest to God. What can he do else? He cannot cover the heavens with clouds, or command the rain, or bring forth the sun or create the dew. He does well to leave the whole matter with God; and so to all of us it is truest wisdom, having obediently trusted in God, to leave results in his hands and expect a blessed issue."