STRENGTH IN HEAVINESS
… we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (Eph. Chapter
2)
In 1833 Webster
published his English interpretation of Psalm 119:28: “My soul melteth for
heaviness: strengthen thou me according to thy word.”
There definitely
are emotional times that weigh upon one’s soul, something we are well aware
of.
Every day carries
weight of testing, challenge, and reasons for sorrow. Choose heaviness to bear
foremost on mind and our life is a crushing affair. Grievous trials are suffered, and continue in
coming; the world is in constant conflict, all things eventually diminish,
loved ones leave us. Perfect a style of avoidance and compensation we may, but
such exercise will not make the weigh go far away. It will remain near, and
come rolling back upon one when struck heavily by yet another of life’s
burdens.
Whereas many
years ago I exercised emotional set-aside of weight I could not bear, it is no
longer my fashion. I’m equipped differently now: Even though initially after
trusting the Word (Jn.1:1) my vision of life’s weightiness definitively
increased in magnitude, Sovereign God’s salvation and gained knowledge of that
which is present and future strengthens in way my past practice of
compartmentalizing never did or could.
The Apostle Paul,
a man far from practicing the exercise of deniability, appropriately advised
“The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.” (Rom.13:11-12)
Jesus, man of
many sorrows as He walked among men and in the end of His earth-walk bore the
weight of all sin past, present, and future, spoke of relief that any person
can appropriate, saying “I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth,
because You have hidden these things [Mt.11:1-24] from the sophisticated and
cunning, and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in
Your sight. All things are delivered to Me by My Father. And no one knows the
Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the
one to whom the Son will reveal Him. Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am
meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls. For My yoke is
easy, and My burden is light.” (MKJV Mt.11:25-30)
My heart and mind
are clear. Now on to breakfast while reading all the issues listed in the Omaha
World-Herald. Will I today and thereafter encounter reason for weight of
sorrow? Of course I shall, which is natural to this life. What is unnatural is godly
strength available for me to handle the weight.
EBB4 Friday, May
11, 2018
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