God's Grace Ministries

Hand Over Your Load

Matthew 11:30

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

One would think that once you accept Christ as your personal Savior, you would be exempt from burdens, stress, trials, heartaches and disappointments. But it seems that the burdens continue to show up. Many times Satan does his best to discourage us from living a life that will be pleasing in the sight of God. But the Lord never told us that we would not have problems. He never told us that difficult days would not come or that we wouldn’t have burdens. He did say, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
One of the crises we face as believers in Christ is that when these things come we really don’t know how to handle it. We don’t mean to be depressed, to quit, to back up, to slow down, or to weep and cry and moan. However, it is the human part of us. We ask the questions, “Why?” and “What do I do next?” I am trying to go by the book. I read my Bible every morning; I talk to God at night before I go to bed; I take care of my obligations; I come to church on a regular basis; I even visit the sick and help people when I can. Why is it that my load is so heavy? What am I doing wrong? Where am I going wrong? What mistakes am I making? I believe God loves me, but when I call, he seems to take so long to come. There seems to be a void. I seem to have to bear this heavy load by myself.
If you are in this predicament I need to tell you that you are not alone. There are others bearing loads that are heavier than yours. When the load gets heavy just ask for strength and keep on toiling. Don’t be like the man walking down the road with his pack on and was offered a ride on a wagon passing by. He jumped on, keeping the pack on his back. The driver asked, “Sir, why are you not resting your sack?” He said, “Well, sir, it’s enough for you to carry me. I don’t want you to have to carry my load also.” The driver said, “The wagon handles it the same, on or off your back.”

Bro Larry’s Fireside Chat
IS YOUR MIND RIGHT?
Text: Phil 2:5
5)Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

The word for followers in the Greek language is where the English word mimic is derived from. It means to imitate, or to act like. To become an actor. In some of those Oscar Winning presentations and the actors receive an award for their performance in a lot of ways they become the very person they are portraying. They do an intense study of that person. They begin to walk and talk like that person. They imitate the mannerisms of that person. They began to move like and become so much like that person that if we didn’t know any better you would begin to identify the actor as that person. To achieve that level of success it takes a very high level of commitment. Saints should be award winning actors but we should not be putting on an act. We should do an intense study of Jesus so that we become so much like Him that there is no mistaking our identity. We should say what He said, behave like He would, live like He lived. I know that this is a lofty goal but it should be ours. I know you don’t feel like being like Jesus every day. There are morning you wake up you don’t feel like smiling or talking. You don’t have anything good to say. You dread facing the activities of your day and the Word of God tells us too “put on Christ.” The issue for us is we try to feel our way through life. As difficult as it may be sometimes we still have our God given ability to chose. You can chose to be nice or smile. You can chose to say something nice or speak well of someone. Putting on Christ is not a feeling but a mindset. Often times we focus on the deity of Christ that we lose sight of His humanity. I’m sure in His humanity there were good days and bad days but the Will Of The Father took precedence. We have to determine to act differently than we feel.
Putting on Christ is a daily mindset—a daily, hour-by-hour determination. So wake up and declare that you have the mind of Christ! God bless you all!!!

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