letting the LORD take care of it

As we steadily move toward Christ on our spiritual journeys, there are times when we feel the weight of our fears, our burdens, even the burdens of others on our shoulders. This makes for difficult travel as we eagerly and desperately struggle to put one foot in front of the other and make forward progression, however little. During these times, we may feel the need to pray, after all we are supposed to pray when times are tough are we not? And, if you are like me, you may have heard or felt like these are times in which our prayers are supposed to be so humble, and we are to be on our knees and so passionate in our words. Yes, but... there is more than offering up passionate prayers while kneeling down with a broken spirit. We must remember to give our problems and cares to the Lord so we are able to get up, strengthened, and move steadily in our spiritual journeys without the extra weight of the world slowing us down. We have to know that the Lord is a loving parent who is eager to help us as sons and daughters move forward - and it is empowering for us to trust our Lord in such a way. It is comforting. It is necessary.

Here is a small devotional I recently read that gave me some things to think about. Particularly, the fact that we as Christians serve a God who desires to take the burdens off of our backs and help us as we move forward in our journeys toward fullness in Christ. Read as through Christ were speaking to you.

Let Me Do It

"Never miss these times. It is not what I reveal to you so much as the linking up of your frail natures with the limitless Divine Powers. Already, forces are set in motion. Only My Will is coming to pass. And now God is blessing you very richly. You think that there is much to do in a crisis like this. There is only one thing to do. Link your lives onto the Divine Forces, and then, it is as much My work to see those lives and their affairs run in an orderly right manner as to see that tomorrow's sun rises. It is not passionate appeal that gains the Divine Ear so much as the quiet placing of the difficulty and worry in the Divine Hands. So trust and be no more afraid than a child would be, who places its tangled skein of wool in the hands of a loving mother, and runs out to play, pleasing the mother more by its unquestioning confidence than if it went down on its knees and implored her help, which would pain her the rather, as it would imply she was not eager to help when help was needed."