Leave It To Me, Devotional

Leave It To Me

Art © Danny Hahlbohm, Inspired Art

"Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you."

Psalm 55:22

Many people find it easier to commit their future into the Lord's hands than to commit the problems and concerns of the day. We recognize our helplessness in regard to the future, but we often feel as if the present is in our own hands.

A Christian by the name of Mary Ellen once had a great burden in her life. She was so distraught she could not sleep or eat, was jeopardizing her physical and emotional health, and was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She recognized, however, that there wasn't anything she could do to change her circumstances.

Then Mary Ellen read a story in a magazine about another woman, Connie, who also had major difficulties in her life. In the account, a friend asked Connie how she was able to bear up under the load of such troubles. Connie replied, "I take my problems to the Lord."

Connie's friend replied, "Of course, that is what we should do."

Then Connie added, "But we must not only take our problems there. We must leave our problems with the Lord."

Not only are we to leave our problems with the Lord, but we are to hold nothing back.

You see, when we sit and worry and fret over our problems, we are in sense, holding on to them and when we do this, we haven't really given them to the Lord. He can't do anything with them if we are still holding on to them in any way.

God wants you to cast your burdens on Him----and leave them there! We can not pick them back up in our minds or in our speech. If we do, then we are basically taking them back and God has no choice but to let you. Leave them there, don't allow yourself to think on them or talk about them in the present tense. We must believe that God has already taken care of them and they are not our problems anymore. If God has taken care of them, then they are no longer a problem for us, are they? "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, but not yet seen."

The Lord wants you to cast your burdens on Him----leave them there. He desires for you to give Him the full weight of your problems as well. Then you can go on with life in full confidence He is taking care of those things you have entrusted to Him.