26 May | EVERYONE
“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; he shall never permit the righteous to be moved” Psalm 55: 22
How many times have you prayed and had the feeling that God was not answering you? On one occasion the Lord Jesus Christ Himself said that we ask and do not receive because we ask wrongly. We do not know how to ask. In fact, even if we ask in all sincerity, we do not know how to do it. If we knew, God would surely answer our prayers.
The reason for our erroneous way of asking has to do with our own humanity and our limited concept of right and wrong. Selfishness ingrained in our nature leads us to ask, and to do so based on our desires that are guided by self-centered, momentary, and transient interests.
Gladys wanted to be a mother. Ten years after her marriage, she could not conceive and began to become obsessed. She pleaded with God, she asked everyone to pray for her, and she had gone into debt looking for money to pay the best specialists and to try the most sophisticated methods of fertilization until she finally got pregnant. She spent the nine months of her pregnancy in an extremely delicate situation, but the day of delivery was a day of celebration. She thought that God had heard her and answered her pleas.
Twenty years have passed, and today Gladys believes that insisting with God was the worst decision of her life. "If I could go back twenty years, I would accept the will of the Lord," she wrote in a dramatic letter in which she recounted the Via Dolorosa she was going through because of her rebellious son.
Was Gladys wrong to insist that the Lord give her a son? I do not know. But today's verse exhorts us to cast our burden on God, and He will sustain us. It means that He will do what is best for us.
Would you not like to place your worries in His hands and accept His wise and merciful love?
Take Action
The better you know God, the more you will be persuaded that His love lightens your burdens. In any case, try to put them on His back and wait for Him. Sing "He’ll Sustain You" (if possible, with your family).