OUR BURDEN BEARER

PSALMS 68:1

A. "BLESSED BE THE LORD, WHO DAILY BEARETH OUR BURDEN" r.v.
  1. This testimony by the Psalmist:
    1. Is an expression of an awareness that our life is beset with burdens
    2. That each day has its peculiar problems
  2. It reveals, further, gloriously and for our reassurance:
    1. That is fully cognizant of all our burdens
    2. And that He, personally, bears them B. OUR BURDEN BEARER
  3. Amazing love:
    1. That is surrounded by untold unfallen worlds which could occupy the majesty of the universe
    2. That interests itself in my personal problems
    3. Not occasionally, but daily; Examples: See Him weeping at the graveside of a dead friend - John 11:34-44; observe Him as He stopped a funeral procession and gives back to a sorrowing mother her only son - Luke 7:14
  4. Note, how intimate our Saviour is:
    1. "Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him" - Ps. 103:13
    2. He carries His children in His bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child" - Num. 11:12
    3. "He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are young" - Is. 40:11
  5. "For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust" - Ps. 103:14:
    1. "He remembered that they were but flesh a wind that passeth away" - Ps. 78:38-39
    2. "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it florisheth, and in the evening it is cut down and withereth" - Ps. 90:5-6 C. OUR CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD'S AMAZING GRACE
  6. Should fill us with reassurance and confidence in God's loving care for us:
    1. This confidence is beautifully expressed by the Psalmist in the twenty-third Psalm
    2. Job, too, expresses the same confidence in the darkest hours of his life - note statements like these found in the book of Job;
  7. "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" - Job 1:21
  8. "Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" - Job 2:10
  9. It should put us at ease at all times, remove from our minds all doubt about Divine loving care:
    1. "Casting all your cares upon Him; for He careth for you" - I Pet. 5:7
    2. "The Lord is my light, then why should I fear; Examples: David was not afraid of the mighty Goliath - I Sam. 17:22-47; the three Hebrews were not afraid of the terrors of the fire awaiting them in the fiery furnace - Dan. 3:16-17; neither was Daniel fearful of the lion's den - Dan. 6:10-22
  10. It should make us very conscious of God's presence:
    1. We should be very careful and prayerful how we walk before the Lord - Is. 66:5
    2. "Stand in awe and sin not" - Ps. 4:4; 119:161
    3. Our hearts should be filled with gratitude and constant praise to God
  11. The knowledge of God's paternal care:
    1. Ought to make us more careful how we use the manifold grace of the Lord
    2. It ought to help us to realize more fully that God is so closely attached to us that He will not allow us to be hurt without His knowledge
  12. We ought to be moved to exclaim with all the power and grace of life, "Who is a God lie unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage" - Micah 7:18-19


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