Whose burdens do you carry?
Is your load too heavy? How do you know who your load is from? There are scads of people willing to dump their problems on you if you let them. I'm not talking about bearing one another's burdens as Scripture tells us to. I'm talking about trying to be all things to all men. And not in the good way like Paul talks about when he is trying to win souls to Christ. Are you eveyone's good little helper? I wear that badge almost all the time and you know what? I'm worn out most of the time! Jesus promises us that His yoke is easy, and His burden is light. Ergo, if my burden is too heavy, I am either not sharing the load with Jesus (yoked with Him), or I am carrying a burden I was never meant to carry. How can any burden be light, you may wonder. I suppose when we yoke with Jesus, as He tells us to, that then, and only then, is our burden less heavy - light, even. How? Because Jesus can bear it all and more! Jesus does not get weighed down like we do. This is b