I'm sorry that I've been a bit quiet over the past few weeks.  My inlaws just left today to return back to their home in Maine.  While they were here they shared with me a website that sends out daily devotionals.  Of course, when you find a good thing, I did what is logical and shared it with some friends.  One of those friends sent me one of those devotionals back this morning and it was such an encouraging reminder that I wanted to share it with you.

Enjoy!

Lean hard!

(from Winslow's, "The Burden Cast upon God")

"Cast your burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you." Psalm 55:22.

It is by an act of simple, prayerful faith we transfer our cares and anxieties, our sorrows and needs, to the Lord.

Jesus invites you come and lean upon Him, and to lean with all your might upon that arm that balances the universe, and upon that bosom that bled for you upon the soldier's spear!

But you doubtingly ask, "Is the Lord able to do this thing for me?" And thus, while you are debating a matter about which there is not the shadow of a shade of doubt, the burden is crushing your gentle
spirit to the dust.

And all the while Jesus stands at your side and lovingly says, "Cast your burden upon Me and I will sustain you. I am God Almighty. I bore the load of your sin and condemnation up the
steep of Calvary, and the same power of omnipotence, and the same strength of love that bore it all for you then, is prepared to bear your need and sorrow now. Roll it all upon Me!"

"Child of My Love! Lean hard! Let Me feel the pressure of your care. I know your burden, child! I shaped it- I poised it in My own hand and made no proportion of its weight to your unaided strength.
For even as I laid it on, I said I shall be near, and while she leans on Me, this burden shall be Mine, not hers. So shall I keep My child within the circling arms of My own love. Here lay it down! Do not
fear to impose it on a shoulder which upholds the government of worlds! Yet closer come! You are not near enough! I would embrace your burden, so I might feel My child reposing on My breast.
You love Me! I know it. Doubt not, then. But, loving me, lean hard!"

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