Even Jesus felt burdened. As Jesus wept over Jerusalem, He felt a heavy burden over those who refused to listen to Him. The burden weighed so much on Him that our dear Lord wept.
There is a parish near my first congregation that had a picture of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. It hung in the sacristy. It would have been the last thing the pastor saw before entering the chancel. Ironically, that congregation had gone through many pastors and had showed little regard for the Word of the Lord and the pastors He had sent to preach it.
Pastors of that parish may have taken comfort in that picture of our Lord. Their burdens were cast onto Him. He sustained them as together they wept for the unrepentant.
On the other hand, you can’t simply point the finger. Your everyday sins have placed you among the ones over whom Jesus weeps. Old Adam finds himself in Old Jerusalem, which did not know the time of her Lord’s visitation – and so she did not recognize Jesus!
Persecuted by those who did not know Him, Jesus cast all His burdens on the LORD. Yes, remember the psalms are Christ’s prayers. In Psalm 55, He reminds Himself to cast His burden on the Father, and the Father would sustain the Son.
Just as the world refused and rejected the Lord, it refuses and rejects those who are in Him. “The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him,” (1 John 3:1 ESV). Yet even as the Father sustained His Son, He will preserve you! Baptized into the Body of the Son, you can also cast your burdens on the Father, and He will sustain you as He has Christ!
Do your professors or teachers deny Christ? “Cast your burden on the LORD.” Does your family go to church but then hide their faith throughout the week? “Cast your burden on the LORD.” Do you face ridicule and rejection from so-called friends because of the Christ you confess? “Cast your burden on the LORD.”
It is okay to feel burdened. Even Jesus did. But remember His strength.
I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. Philippians 4:11b
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