I grew up hearing that God would never place more on a person than that person could bear. As I got older, and learned that wasn\u2019t exactly true. What is true is that God will never place more on a person than He and the person together can bear. The Psalmist said it this way, \u201cCast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you\u201d (Psalm 55:22). I have learned in these past few weeks of my wife\u2019s injury, surgery, rehab, and home health care, that I am not called, nor equipped to be a caregiver. I simply can\u2019t do this – alone. The burden is too much to bear by myself. For one who was raised and trained to believe that I could do anything to which I set my mind, it is hard to admit that I can\u2019t handle this burden. The more powerful lesson I learned early, but only fully applied later, is that I can \u201ccast\u201d my \u201cburden on the Lord.\u201d When the Psalmist says the Lord will \u201csustain,\u201d he uses the word that literally means \u201cto measure.\u201d Here it means that God would give such a \u201cmeasure\u201d of strength and grace as would be sufficient to bear one up under the \u201cburden.\u201d God may sometimes remove a \u201cburden,\u201d but that was not promised. What was promised was to help bear it, to \u201csustain\u201d us. Yes, I am in over my head, but I am being sustained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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