Let go and let GOD!

Psalm 55:22 (KJV) 22Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. This verse has a lot to say to us about personal challenge and encoragement. It's 3 main power words are: 1)cast, 2)burden, and 3) sustain. Cast means "to throw, hurl, abandon, or toss away as no longer needed or wanted." It also means "to dispense with something in such a way as to have nothing more to do with it." Our cares and our burdens are to be thrown away, abandoned into God's care, dispensed with so that we have nothing more to do with them. Burden is a word used to describe a load of anxiety that weighs a person down. It has to do with one's lot in life, his/her particular sphere of influence, his daily duties and responsibilities. Various Bible scholars have defined this expression your burden in the following ways: "God's gift to you," "your hope," "your cares," "your allotment," "your portion," and "your cares, travails, and troubles that go with your business or occupation." Sustain is a good word. It has to do with upholding, feeding, nourishing, supporting, and taking care of. God gives us a life to live and then invites us to turn over to Him the weight of it all so He can carry us and the load. Incidentally, Peter, quoting from the Septuagint Old Testament, gave us the same words in a New Testament setting: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you (1 Peter 5:7). God cares for you. Shift the load from you to Him. He knows what to do with it!