and powerful. All must work for good. There can be no real evil.
5. What consolation in sorrow! Our times are in hands divinely wise and powerful. All must work for good. There can be no real evil.
6. What hope for the future! We know that there is light beyond this gloom. The storm is for an hour, the calm that follows is eternal.
The True Burden-bearer
"Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."—PS. 55:22.
WE do not need to bear our own burdens any more than we need to bear our own sins. God has provided for the bearing of both. He takes them upon Himself. The work of burden-bearing is as completely His as is the work of sin-bearing. His love has removed all necessity for our attempting to bear either the one or the other.
Even if we could, then, why should we bear them? It is not wise; nay, it is foolish beyond measure; and it is as useless as it is foolish.
But more than this, it is sinful. To try to be our own sin-bearers is to make void the work of Christ as such; so to try to be our own burdenbearers is to make void His work as such. We see the sin of trying to bear our own guilt, let us learn to see as clearly the sin of seeking to bear our own burdens. Let us understand the sin of not casting our burden on the Lord.
What is there about these burdens that we should be so unwilling to part with them? Or what is there about God that should make us unwilling to cast them on Him? His love, and power, and faithfulness, all invite us to do this. Not to do it is to suspect and distrust Him. He delights to bear the whole undivided weight; shall