Casting Burdens

Are there passages that the Lord continues to use in your life?  Psalm 55 is one of those for me.  A couple of weeks ago that Psalm spoke to me yet again.  Look at Psalm 55:22.

In that verse David describes one imperative for us that results in two actions by the Lord.

• We cast our burden on the Lord
• He sustains us
• He will not allow us to be shaken

That picture in itself is sustaining.  But there is more.  I remembered other verses with that same imagery:

• 1 Peter 5:6 – 7 (more casting)
• Philippians 4:6 – 7 (how to cast)

Coming to the Lord, bearing my soul to Him, casting my burden on Him:

• Sustains me 
• Makes me unshaken
• Humbles me
• Exalts me
• Guards my heart
• Guards my mind

It is not that the requests are granted.  It is that assured confidence that the sovereign king of the universe is involved in my life, intentionally.  I can rest and have peace that he is engage in whatever I am dealing with at the time.

That is a good deal.