Use this day to pray, rest, and reflect on this week’s reading, giving thanks for the grace that is ours in Christ.
18 You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;
you received gifts from people,
even from the rebellious,
so that the Lord God might dwell there.
19 Blessed be the Lord!
Day after day he bears our burdens;
God is our salvation. Selah
—Psalm 68:18–19
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“May the Lord be praised! Day after day He bears our burdens; God is our salvation” (Ps 68:19). He bore my burden once when He died for my sins. Now He hears my prayers- every time I come to Him. The things that I see as burdens are made heavier by my refusal to take them to Him in prayer. I need wisdom every moment of the day. When I do not seek it out, I bear unnecessary burdens. Oh Father, I do not come to you often enough. My pride forbids it or false humility tells me not to “bother you”. But You invite me to cast my cares on You because You care for me! Help me to come to You in true humility – admitting my need for Your strength and wisdom.
Pray was a real struggle. We have our 5 and 6-1/2 year old grandsons for the weekend and they just would not behave. I was at my wits end. By the time we put them to bed I realized, that if I had taken the time this morning just to talk to the Lord and help me through it may have gone better. I got terribly frustrated and instead of turning it to the Lord I just stayed frustrated, to the point of crying.
Lord. I’m sorry. Being in Your Word and talking with You first thing in the morning may not take away how the boys are behaving, but it will help me with how I react. Please forgive me. I think I may have learned my lesson.
Today didn’t start out right! I didn’t start my day right. I NORMALLY get into God’s word first thing. Instead because I couldn’t sleep and slept very little went on my long run and I thought I would have time for God’s word and I got home before meeting with my mentor. NOPE. I should know better. So here I am late morning after being frazzled. I’m thankful for a God it’s patient with His children. Who is patient with me.
I tend to give my big burdens, like my son using marijuana, or not working but I need to give all burdens such as I need to replace a car, or I am stressed at work.
I just prayed for you Carrie
I had to go read verse 19 in different versions just for fun. I love how The Passion Translation says it, “What a glorious God! He gives us salvation over and over, then daily he carries our burdens! Pause in his presence”
Psalms 68:19 TPT
As I wrote my prayer in my journal I just keep hearing the lyrics from the new Hillsong United song, Whole Heart (Hold Me Now)
“And that grace
Owns the ground where the grave did
Where all my shame remains
Left for dead in Your wake
You crashed those age-old gates
You left no stone unturned
You stepped out of that grave
And shouldered me all the way
So here I stand
High in surrender
I need You now
Hold my heart
Now and forever
My soul cries out
Once I was broken
But You loved my whole heart through
Sin has no hold on me
‘Cause Your grace holds me now
Healed and forgiven
Look where my chains are now
Death has no hold on me
‘Cause Your grace holds that ground
And Your grace holds me now”
He didn’t just come for a one-time fix. He came to be our daily help and guide-shouldering us all the way!
Love Hillsong. I have never heard that song. I’m going to have to listen to it later today.
Lord, refresh me and fill me. You are trustworthy to give all my burdens.
When Christ ascended to heaven he overcame all that holds us in captivity.
Now we have the Lord God, by the presence of the Holy Spirit, dwelling in us and bearing our burdens for us.
How I needed this today. Sometimes things in life seem to hold me in captivity but there is victory in Christ!
God is indeed our salvation!
Your Word tells me to cast my cares on You for You are the burden-bearer. Burdens are simply too heavy for me for they bend me down, low to the ground. Burdens make it hard for me to keep my eyes on You. The only yoke I’m to wear is the one that binds me to You. Today I release what’s weighing me down and I take up Your yoke.
Day after day-not once when I am having a particularly hard struggle-not on the days when I at the top do my “faith game”-not only when I have reached the end of my own strength-not that time when I felt the Lord whisper in my heart at the Bible conference-not just the time a dear friend interceded for me in prayer-not the time I turned my wailing into praise as I sang a song blessing His name-not when I had to fill my lungs with deep breaths and fix my eyes to be able to “do it again”—NO! This verse declares that day after day He bears my burdens! He knows me. He knows what struggles I face, what keeps me up at night, and what tears me down from the outside and from the inside. He knows which burdens are brought on by my own missteps and outright rebellion, and which have caught me off guard with a whiplash of unfairness. He knows which wounds will heal quickly and which will linger and infect my spirit. He knows. And he bears them all-day after day————for me. What mercy and grace!
Amen!!!❤️
Jesus help me to release my burdens to you and not try to pick them up again
Amen
Lord i release my burdens to you. I don’t want to bear them any longer.