Sunday Sermonettes #099
A burden becomes too heavy to carry at times.
It is at those moments that you look for someone who has passed through such trouble to come and be with you. Perhaps speak an encouraging word. For only those who have experienced what you are going through can offer any help.
There is someone who understands.
He was “despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering!”
Not only does he understand pain and grief, he knows what it is to weep. He also bore the greatest burden of mankind—our sin with its guilt and shame.
That someone is the Saviour—the Man Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He was moved with compassion. He met the needs of distressed people like no other man ever did.
He bled to death on a cross. But now he lives forevermore to carry our burdens—standing with us at life’s difficult hours and crossroads.
He can help. He is willing to. One cry for mercy from your heart, “O God, help me!” is enough for his help to reach you. He who carried the cross will willingly carry your burden as well.
He calls you his friend. More than that, he calls you, “My brother, my sister.”
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
That is his call and invitation.
Come. Won’t you?
Bible verse quoted: Isaiah 53:3
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