“FREE!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 565

February 8, 2022///

I know you must have had this happen to you. If you are like me, it has happened more than once.

You are taking something from one room to the other. You pick up several things like your cell phone or/and cordless phone, something to put in the sink and a note pad and pen or book or any number of things,

Suddenly you see one more thing that needs to go the way you are going, and you add it to your load, and kerplunk it all falls down, something may break, or the battery door pops off the cordless phone, etc.!

The problem was you were too loaded down and could not carry it! Suppose before you drop it all someone in your house, office, etc. steps up and says let me help.

Or suppose a large someone steps up and says give me that and I will carry it!

Now you probably know where I am going with this. Jesus wants to carry your entire load for you and if we see someone struggling because they are trying to do it themselves, we need to help them and encourage them in the future to let Jesus carry their load.

In the same way we need to be thankful for a brother or sister who will come along beside us when we try to do it ourselves!

I want to zero in on three scriptures passages!

1 Peter 5:7 (KJV)
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Matthew 11:28-30 (KJV)
²⁸ Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Galatians 6:2 (KJV)
Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

When we worry and fret and build up anxiety in our hearts, at some point we are going to add one more thing and break down!

It may come in the form of collapsing in tears, or just saying I quit and not trying any more, or maybe you lash out at a person around you when that last care or that last problem or that last worry comes on!

In order to live the life of showing to a world in need, Jesus who can set them free, we must be walking in that freedom.

We can get so bogged down with the cares of the world in general, the needs and cares of those we love and the burdens of sickness or seeing so much lack in so many people’s life, that we get into a place of worry and just trying to make it all better!

Jesus tells us to cast all our care on Him. How? Tell Him the need you are placing in His capable hands and release it to His Lordship! Speak it and when you start to pick that worry up again, release it again! Release situations, people, events, and all things to His Lordship and you will be free to live a life of worship!

When your children go to school each day, instead of worrying about them all day, release them to the Lordship of Jesus knowing that He loves them more than you do!

Can we trust Him to take care of us, our families, our churches, our needs? Can we trust Him with our physical needs as well as our emotional and spiritual needs?

I say yes!

We can then follow the last scripture above and help someone else release their load! If we are running the race, we may have to slow down to help a brother or sister who are so loaded down they cannot go on! But this is the Love of Jesus in action!

A smile, a hug, a prayer, a helping hand to lift them up will do a lot more than running on past them in this race called life! As you help them release their load to Jesus, you can run together and help another who is bent beneath the cares of life!

We can only be the hands and feet and love of Jesus as we release all that weighs us down. Then we are free to help others with their load and help them be able to let that go into the hands of a loving Savior!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come! I lift up all who read this to you and ask you to lift them up in Spirit and help them to release every care and burden and walk in the Freedom that is ours as your beloved children! May we understand the depth of your Love for each of us and receive it! Amen

Release your load! Love, MeMaw