Cast your burden
on the LORD and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be
moved.”
-
Psalm 55:22 (NKJV)
I
have been contemplating why God does not cause evil. I believe that God
or love is shown in our human acts in response to evil or suffering. But
as I think deeper it is also God's love or relief from our burdens. This
is the presence of Jesus within us. I knew a husband with a wife who
suffered from ALS. I got to know them late in her illness. They
lived in a simple, unadorned house where the husband met her every need -
feeding, bathing, and caring for her. When she died and I spoke with the
husband, he sobbed and stated how very much Jesus had loved them. I could
not understand his response. How could he believe that God loved them
when to me they had both endured such suffering? With time I am beginning
to understand. God is not in the act, but the response. The
response of Jesus is to lift the burden from us and carry "our cross"
giving us emotional and mental relief so we do not worry. The husband
knew he wasn't caring for his wife alone.
He had such faith he was able to give his cross to Jesus. But how
many of us have the belief and faith to do so? To ask Jesus to help us
and truly believe that he will? And isn't it amazing that Jesus can carry
so many of our burdens?
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