Cast Your Burden on the Lord
We have the honour and pleasure of having a Father who
is concerned and moved by our challenges and needs. In our reading today its
about betrayal by a friend but in all we struggle against or with our Father is
here to help us.
Give ear to my prayer, O God,
and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan, because
of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they
drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.
My heart is in anguish within
me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fear and trembling come upon me, and
horror overwhelms me. And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly
away and be at rest; yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the
wilderness; I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”
For it is not an enemy who
taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently
with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion,
my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house
we walked in the throng.
But I call to God, and the
Lord will save me. Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and
moan, and he hears my voice. Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain
you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
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