Are you carrying burdens?
Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
When you first leave home for college, you set off with a backpack filled with hopes and dreams. You quickly realize that adulting is hard! As you walk this new journey your backpack can become filled with items that weigh you down like fear over grades, worry about juggling a part-time job and full-time school, needs & wants, difficulties with new relationships, failures, and the list goes on. Before long the pack is too heavy to move or live freely like you did when living with your parents.
One thing they won’t teach you in college is that God can take the burdens from your backpack and give you perspective, strength, and even joy. Understand something about God, he sustains the entire universe including life from small insects to how planets orbit around the sun. No molecule is random or out of his control. Our burdens are not too big for him to handle and he promises to be with us through these challenging times. While we might think we are failing or drowning, God plans to use these stressors to develop us into the person he desires us to be. Start talking to God about what is in that backpack of yours and get help from the One who can do something about it to alleviate the heaviness.
Heavenly Father, today my pack is too heavy because of the load I carry. Help me to let go of anything that I do not need, and give me wisdom to deal with the rest. I trust you to sustain and care for me as you and I walk this road together. Make me into the person that you want me to be and use these burdens for your glory. In your matchless name, amen.
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