Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar;
Psalms 55:23: “Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never permit the righteous to be moved (collapse) .”
There is the story in the Talmud of a poor man who had no wagon or donkey to carry his heavy bundles. He had to carry the load on his back and walk many miles with his burdens to the village. A wealth man with a large wagon rode by. Seeing the poor man struggle with his burdens, he stopped and offer the man a ride. The poor man was more than grateful to have his burden eased.
After traveling some time, the wealthy man noticed that his companion was sitting with his bundles still upon his shoulders. “Why don’t you put your belongings down?” Asked the wealthy man. “There is plenty of room in my wagon to lay your burdens down. Are they not heavy?”
“Indeed they are,” sighed the poor man. “But you have been more than gracious to offer me a ride and I do not wish to take advantage of you by weighing down your wagon.”
When you accepted Jesus as your personal Savior, He not only took your life, He also took on your burden. To not take your burden off your own shoulders and lay it upon Jesus makes you about as foolish as this poor man.
I know, that sounds pretty. I mean let’s have it at. “Ok, Lord, you asked for it, here’s my burden.” But for some reason it still weighs upon my shoulders. How do you go about “casting” you burdens on Him.
As one very insightful student in our class yesterday pointed out. “There are conditions.” So let’s look at Psalms 55:23 and find out what those conditions are that will allow us to release our burdens and place them upon Jesus.
First condition is that you must “cast” your burdens on Him. The word cast here is “hasheleke.” This is an infinitive in an imperative form. Watch this, Yamon Ki Yesepar. It is not that we have the opportunity to “cast” our burdens upon Him, We are commanded to do it. The Father is ordering us to do it. Our service to Him is pretty useless if we walk around with a heavy burden.
Note, too that this is also an infinitive. We are to continually be casting our burdens upon Him. This is more than just going to the front of the church and having the preacher pray over you every Sunday. This is a day by day, moment by moment discipline. Like a magnet, that old burden just keeps jumping back on our shoulders and we need to continually be taking it off and giving it the Father. This is just another spiritual discipline, one that, if practiced, will continually keep you before the presence of God.
The word burden comes from the root word “shalak.” This is a picture a flower being blown away from it’s plant by the wind. In other words it is not you doing the casting, but you exposing yourself to the wind and letting the wind blow your burdens away from your. I wonder if maybe Jesus had this in mind when He said in John 3:8: “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” The Holy Spirit is pictured as the wind. We can not control Him or order Him around, we just have to expose ourselves to Him and let Him blow away our burdens.
Here is something interesting, the word burden is yehaveka which literally means “He has given you.” It is from the root word yahav which means to give. Just like the word nathan means to give. However, yahav is the giving of responsibility, Nathan is the giving of a blessing. Think about it, most of the burden you carry is really the result of responsibility you have. Your, job weighs you down, because of the responsibility. The stresses of your family because of your responsibility to them. When you begin to feel you are failing in your responsibility, you are then burdened down. When God gives you a responsibility he also gives you a wagon to carry the burden of that responsibility, we are to just fulfill our responsibility not carry the burdens that come with it, that’s the Lord’s job, we just sit back and enjoy our responsibilities.
Note the last condition here: “He will never let the righteous man be moved.” The final condition is that you are righteous or that you are seeking to do the right thing. Whenever you seek to do the right thing, even if you are wrong in what you are doing, expose yourself to the “wind” the Holy Spirit and He will blow that burden upon the father who will Romans 8:28 it and you will not be moved. The word moved in the Hebrew is “mot” which means to fall down or collapse. He will never let the righteous collapse under their burden.
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