It usually comes with big bold numbers and you have to step up on it. You have guessed right, I am speaking of the infamous weight scale. Most of us avoid it at all costs. If you are anything like me when I have to visit the doctor, I usually tell the nurse to write the results down on the paper so the results will avoid my ears. Why do I have this response? Because I know that the scale is tilting too much in the wrong direction and it sounds the alarm that I need to make some changes. Well just like the natural weight scale there is a spiritual one. God’s people are carrying too much weight. We are hard pressed and over whelmed with the cares of this life. We are spiritually burdened and lethargic.
Hebrews 12: 1 says, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” God has given us the choice and the responsibility to get rid of the excess baggage. All throughout the Word of God we read about God’s peace and His rest. If we understand covenant, then we realize that it belongs to us. Jesus has paid the full price and we have a right to walk in it. As true as that is, why are we struggling to let things go that are too big for us in the first place? There may be many answers to that question based on who you are and what you have experienced. However, I believe ultimately that it comes down to choice. We must choose to let things go. Sounds simple right? However, I know from experience that it takes discipline, commitment and a lot of prayer to resist the weights of this life.
One morning during my prayer time, I was crying out to the Lord. I was overwhelmed with grief and anxiety. I was in such a painful place; I did not know how I would survive. I wept before God and I kept repeating, “Lord, help me. Lord, will you please help me?” I heard so gently the still small voice of the Holy Spirit saying, “I am helping you.” At that moment a peace came over me and my heart was filled with joy. I began to thank and praise God because I realized that He had been helping me all along. Even though it looked like I was bearing it solo, God encouraged me that He had not left me as an orphan. He left me a Comforter, a Helper, one who would stand by me. I could let go of the pain because Jesus had already carried it for me. It was not my burden. It was up to me to give it to the one designed to handle it.
Have you stepped up on the spiritual scale lately? If so, which way is your scale tiling? If you are carrying too much weight, let go of the excess. God’s yoke is easy and His burden is light. Cast your care upon the Lord and allow Him to be your sustaining grace. He is waiting for you to dump the load on Him. I promise you, He can handle it!
Yes I need to step on the scale without the excess, I recieve this powerful word!
Thank you Evangelist Camper. Even after God gave me a message in September 2008 to stop worrying and rest in Him, I still struggle with the praying/worrying mode but God did begin a work inside of me afterward that began to lighten the heavy yoke and burden. I receive your word as one sent by God as He continues to work on me.