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"Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary"
Message Summary: What assurance His Word brings. Believing friend, God is begetting your burdens today. He loves you, and the burdens you are presently bearing matters to Him. God is faithful and He will see you through it! Don't try to shoulder your burdens for the heavy load will surely interruption you lot. Instead lay your burdens down at the foot of the cantankerous. Burdens are lifted at Calvary! Jesus volition meet you there.
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"Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens" (Psalm 68:19). "Come to me all you lot who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" (Matthew xi:28). "Casting all your anxiety (burdens) on Him, considering He cares for you lot" (1 Peter five:7).
You might say our role as workplace chaplains includes that of beingness "burden-bearers". Yesterday we visited half-dozen different visitor locations as well as making a dwelling house visit to an elderly friend under hospice care. On some occasions nosotros hear so many pitiful, complex stories that we bargain with what has been called "compassion fatigue".*¹ We hear stories of burdens concerning abuse, concluding illness, chronic pain, rebellious children, suicide, broken relationships and many more.
We have opportunity to pray with employees right at their worksite, when they're desirous or open up to it. Of course we do it in a discreet manner and so equally not to draw attending to one who is dealing with heavy burdens. Yesterday I, Brooksyne, prayed with an employee whose tears got in the way of her ability to carry on her work. I prayed non just for her burdensome situation but likewise that God would give her strength to acquit on unhindered with her work duties. (She certainly could not miss work as her finances are very express and faithfulness to work responsibilities are essential as well.)
Our ultimate goal is to point people to where burdens are lifted.
This is the 4th message nosotros've prepared this calendar week based on songs we heard at a concert on Sunday afternoon by the Collingsworth Family. Today'southward bulletin features some other older hymn, although every bit I get older, "older" doesn't carry the same connotation that information technology did when I was a young boy or young man. This hymn was written in 1952 ii years before my nativity:
Days are filled with sorrow and care,
Hearts are lonely and drear.
Burdens are lifted at Calvary,
Jesus is very near.
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"Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary" was written by John Yard. Moore and was prompted by an experience that Moore had while serving equally the assistant superintendent of the Seaman'south Chapel in Glasgow, Scotland, one of that expanse's outstanding evangelistic centers. He recalls:
"I wrote 'Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary' later a most interesting feel. The company secretary of a large shipping firm telephoned the Seaman'south Chapel and requested that I visit a young merchant seaman who was lying critically sick in a Glasgow infirmary. After getting permission from the nursing sister, I went in to visit the young sailor. I talked for a few moments and then put my mitt in my example for a tract, non knowing which 1 I would pull out. It happened to be a tract based on 'Pilgrim's Progress', with a colour reproduction of Pilgrim coming to the cross with a great burden on his back. I showed the young seaman this flick and told him the story in brief, adding that Pilgrim's experience had been my experience too. I explained that when I came to the cantankerous of Christ, my burden rolled away and my sense of sin and guilt before God was removed. He nodded his head when I asked him, 'Do y'all feel this burden on your back today?' Nosotros prayed together and never shall I forget the grinning of peace and assurance that lit up his confront when he said that his burden was lifted!
Later that night, sitting by the fireside with paper and pen, I could not become the idea out of my mind–his burden is lifted! I started writing, but never for a moment did I imagine that this piddling hymn would become a favorite throughout the earth. Since that time, I hear of people all over the world who are beingness blest and saved through the singing of this hymn." *²
Well, we are two of those people that have been blessed past this unproblematic hymn for many years!
I of Brooksyne's favorite writers is Robert J. Morgan, a pastor in Tennessee. Several years ago nosotros attended his church and I took this photo. He shared an interesting illustration on his blog. He was on a long trip and was travel weary. He saw a long moving sidewalk and got on it.
He had a bag in each hand just in his fatigue he didn't even think to set them downwards. "I was withal carrying my load while the moving sidewalk was carrying me. Not until halfway down the hall did I have the presence of mind to release my bags and allow the moving sidewalk carry them too."
Can you identify with Morgan'south illustration although in regard to my burdens I tend to set them down (trust) and then pick them back upward again (dubiousness).
"Praise exist to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens." In Scripture God often emphasizes the unit of measurement of time we call the day. In fact information technology's the very showtime unit of measurement of fourth dimension that is referred to in the Bible and the most oftentimes mentioned starting with Genesis i:14.
And nosotros all sure know well-nigh burdens. Surely we can identify with the Lord's statement that "each day has enough problem (burdens) of its own" (Matthew 6:34b). A commentary further explains the meaning of the daily text in this fashion: "God daily carries the states as a manifestation of His protective and sustaining intendance." Such an interpretation brings to listen "Footprints in the Sand" written by Mary Stevenson during her teen years in 1936 as she endured major obstacles in her young life.
What balls His Word brings to burdened souls. Assertive friend, God is bearing your burdens today. He loves you, and the burdens you are presently bearing matters to Him. God is true-blue and He will see you through it! Don't endeavor to shoulder your burdens for the heavy load volition surely break you lot. Instead lay your burdens downward at the human foot of the cantankerous. Burdens are lifted at Calvary! Jesus will meet you there.
Burdens are lifted at Calvary,
Calvary, Calvary;
Burdens are lifted at Calvary,
Jesus is very near.
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily prayer: Father, our religion rests in the finished work of Jesus at Calvary. Considering of His tremendous sacrifice our sins are forgiven and a identify is reserved for united states in heaven. We too find remainder from our unending troubles in this life as we respond to Jesus' invitation: "Come to Me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you lot rest." Help usa to expect to Yous for needed strength and an overcoming spirit every bit we daily encounter challenges and ongoing burdens. Burdens are lifted at Calvary for that is where Jesus diameter not just our sins only also our sorrows. Praise exist to You, our Father in heaven, who daily bears our burdens. Amen.
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources
"Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary" Video The Collingsworth Family unit
"Lay Your Burdens Down" Video Chuck Girard
"Lay Your Burdens Down" Video
"It Matters To The Master" Video The Collingsworth Family unit
"Redeemer Of The Rain" Video The Collingsworth Family We shared a message based on this song yesterday and a link to the song. Merely this version has Phil sharing the background we wrote about.
*¹ "Compassion Fatigue" is described in this message.
*² Source for hymn background to "Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary" is hither.
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Finally today:
Yesterday afternoon we stopped by a roadside produce stand. I waited in the van as Brooksyne looked through the produce and chatted with the produce possessor. Another van with the same make, model and color pulled effectually in front of me while Brooksyne was talking. I saw her, as though in deadening motion, as she worked her way to the stranger'due south van, since she assumed I had pulled upward to get her. In slow move information technology seemed she reached toward the door handle without even looking, opened the door and proceeded to go far. Then I heard her shriek as she turned around to look at me with a very red face up! She would accept climbed right in the stranger's machine had he non said, "Mam, you lot're getting in the wrong machine." The produce homo then commented, "I was wondering what in the world was going on here!" (I couldn't resist getting a photograph since I knew what was almost to happen every bit she headed toward the stranger'southward car.)
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