Psalm 34:17-18: “The righteous
cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their
troubles. The Lord is close to the
brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all
you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
1 Peter 5:6-7: “Humble
yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. Cast all your anxiety on him
because he cares for you.”
Romans 8:28: “And we know that
in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been
called according to his purpose.”
Lord,
I am crying out to You right now. I am
brokenhearted and I need You. You
promise to save those who are crushed in spirit. You promise to lighten my burden and to help
my soul find rest. I need that right
now. Please, help me find rest for my
soul.
I
am falling down before You right now, weary and exhausted. I cannot keep carrying the burdens I have
been carrying, and so I am putting them down at Your feet right now. Help me learn what Your yoke is - the jobs
and responsibilities that You want
for me, not the more burdensome ones that I place on myself. Help me to let go of my heavier and harder
yoke so that I can take up Your lighter and easier one instead. In fact, I realize now that depression and
anxiety and fear are burdens that I have been carrying around, and they have
become too crushing for me to carry anymore.
And so I am putting them down now.
I cannot bear those burdens any longer and I am giving them to You.
Lord,
I admit that I have been trying to carry the weight of the world on my
shoulders, but it’s too much for me. And
it never was my responsibility to begin with.
And so I am putting the responsibilities that are not mine back into
Your hands and asking You to take care of the things that I can’t take care of. I am humbling myself before You, admitting
that You are God and I am not. I cannot
keep trying to do Your job. I cannot
carry the world’s problems or anyone else’s problems. I cannot even carry my own problems by
myself. I am not big enough or strong
enough. But You are. And so I am trusting in Your wisdom and Your
capable hands to carry all these problems and to help me through mine. I am getting off of Your throne and humbling
myself at Your feet and asking You to lift me up again when it is time.
I
trust that You really do care for me and that You can handle my concerns, and
so I give You all of my anxieties right now and ask You to fix them in Your
time and in Your way. (Maybe list each
anxiety right now, on paper or out loud.)
Thank You, Lord, for Your faithfulness and for being able to handle the
things that I can’t, for promising to work good things out of all the messes in
life. Please, just put Your arms around
me right now and give me Your comfort.
Tell me that You are with me and that it will be okay.
-
Heather K (Joshua 24:15, Psalm 46:10)
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