Try walking around with a 100-pound weight for one day. That would mean no matter where you go, when you wake up, go to work, while you’re sleeping, while you’re eating, and no matter what you do for that day, you will be burdened with 100 pounds on your shoulders.

Now imagine if that 100 pounds represented your problems. Perhaps you’re thinking to yourself, “It feels like more than 100 pounds; it seems like 200 or 500 or even 1000,” because the way you feel when you think about all you are going through is crushing.

This may have been a reality for a long time. You have tried everything you can imagine, but life still takes its toll on you. Well, you don’t have to carry that weight alone. In fact, you don’t have to carry it at all. Look at what the word of God says:

Cast your burden on the Lord,
And He shall sustain you;
He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
Psalms 55:22

Whenever you cast your burdens upon the Lord, it is no longer yours to carry. The problems you’re facing right now, He has a solution for. You’ve looked for help in other places and people, but they carry their own burdens. The Lord can take your burdens away from you and solve every one of them.

Those who trust in Him never have to fear the weight of their problems because He will never permit them to be moved by worries, fear, or threats of this world. Your problems are no longer yours when you place them in the hands of God. He promises to never permit the righteous to be shaken. When you are righteous before God and throw your problems into His hands, He never gives them back to you; He solves them. Turn over this weight and be free once and for all.

May the God of the Bible bless you!

Bishop Bira Joshua