A Crushing Weight: need not crush

     What is it that crushes the spirit out of a man? (woman).  It is the load and weight of our lives lived perhaps without the knowledge of God?  Daily in our world we wrestle with the issues of lives lived sometimes in turmoil from day to day wishing we could go to that Margaritaville of Jimmy Buffet if only to relieve the pressure for a while. Why do we see that some people seem to go through life with all the possibilities at their finger tips and others scratch with those same fingers daily just to survive?        Proverbs is a book filled with the musings of a King one called Solomon who searched out just these same things thousands of years before us.  We are able to survive many types of situations day after day, read stories of death and destruction as long as it doesn't  touch us and keep on going like the energizer bunny until that is it finally reaches the point of breach like a dam and we are flooded with emotions out of control and only then do we seek some one or perhaps God himself to relieve us of these burdens we feel that are unbearable.
   These weights may " seem weightless" only until gravity takes hold like a spaceman returning to Earth, then reality takes hold.  Legs are weak from lack of muscle use and we are prone to falling easier.  Likewise so are we when each of us in our lifetime comes to the realization that we were meant to be supported by our faith in our Creator.  Over and again in the scriptures he woos  us to "taste and see that the Lord is good."  And again "take on my yoke' for it is easy....and lighter than our own.
     Whatever it is that you are dealing with, bills, death, sickness, depression or addictions he our God has remedy for us.  And it is not fiction.  The Holy Spirit himself given at Pentecost still fills everyone who seeks and calls on the name of the Lord. It is that wellspring of water Jesus promised from the Father given unto us to enrich our lives and make it entirely possible to live,love and be free of those bondages we are so easily prone to.  Those weights don't just go away but become like the gas Helium and are so much lighter than before because of the power infused into us as a new creation.  Though we will never be entirely free from the pressures and or circumstances we have thrown at us we can however be safe in the knowledge that he "cares for us so much more than a sparrow." and will come to us with blessings that would surprise you and in ways you would not expect him to.  The growth inwardly will increase exponentially as time goes on as you walk out your faith in him and his ways.
     Those Christians of the underground church in China deal with such heavy matters we cannot comprehend in this country. They i'm sure pray ceaselessly for intervention from God to help them through their lives.  And he does help them.
  Perhaps in the short and intense life of one called Jesus you can look deeper into that particular life and see just what it was about him that was magnetic to some and repulsive enough to others to change the world. Not only for those alive at the time but for every last man woman and child ever born.  It says somewhere that he first descended (into hell) before he ascended and preached a message of hope to those who would listen and led the captivity captive and set them free.  Those in our future will also have available to them the timeless message of the gospel that would set them free if and when they come to the realization that Jesus was the light of men sent into our world  and is not a myth.
                             
                         So today...." If you hear his voice.....harden not your heart, but instead take on his yoke for he says his burden is light.............