Cast Your Burdens
July 21, 2025
“Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you” (Psalm 55:22).
Dear Praying Friends:
Once again, David is in deep distress. A former friend has turned against him and now leads a gang of violent men seeking to destroy him. His heart is gripped with searing pain. Terror has taken hold of him; horror overwhelms him. He trembles with anxiety and longs to fly away to a safe place, but he is trapped.
So, as usual, he cries out to God: “Evening and morning at noon,” he says, “I will pray and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice” (Psalm 55:16-17). The God who has redeemed his soul from death in the past will come again to destroy his foes and deliver him.
Out of that conviction, he tells us to cast our burdens on the LORD.
We bear all sorts of burdens.
From the past: Guilt, shame, remorse, sorrow, grief, rejection, a broken spirit that keeps us from trusting anyone, including God.
In the present: Work, financial pressure, strained relationships, illness, weakness, fatigue, frustration, anger, confusion, loneliness, and more.
For the future: Fear of not having enough, of failure, of being unable to cope, of abandonment, danger, disease, disability, death.
And many more. This morning, I identified no fewer than nine burdens that I was bearing. Prompted by this psalm and remembering the sermon yesterday on the hymn, “What A Friend We Have in Jesus,” I made a mental list of them, gave them to God, and claimed his promises to love and care for me (See “How God Helps Me with Fear”).
“I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me” (Psalm 55:16).
Yours in the love of our prayer-answering God,
Wright