Thought for today.

God tells us that He will bear our burdens, making our yoke easy. It is a promise to His children. But in order to experience His rest, we must first give our burdens over to Him. We do that through prayer, confessing that we cannot carry the weight of life without Him. He wants to bear our burdens for us and make our load light. There will be many people in our lives who will offer to carry our burdens. And while they can share in our pain and suffering—and while often God uses others as a means of His grace—people really cannot carry our burdens for us. Only Christ can lift the load.

Father, what a blessing it is to know that Your love for us is so great that You have promised not only to lighten our load, but to lift it, bearing it for us. How humbly thankful we are to You for the grace and mercy You offer us. Amen.