INSPIRASUNS

We’ve all heard this advice before. You know, you’re outside doing yard work, you grab that bag of mulch when your other half yells, “bend your knees lifting that”. You’re at the gym and you grab that weight off the shelf when the instructor mentions, to lift with your knees, not your back. It’s sound advice, your legs have large muscles that can handle the weight. I mean your legs carry your whole body, right?

So if we know this is sound advice why do we still use our back to lift? Why do we try to take the quick easy way of lifting the load? You’ve been there I’m sure, you reach and heave and the next thing you know, you’ve wrenched your back.

How many times have we done this with life’s loads? We carry the burden of anxiety, anger, fear, or worry. We’re bent over carrying weights squarely on our backs. We don’t bend our knees and we don’t ask for help.

God doesn’t want us to carry the load ourselves. He’s here to lift our burdens and lighten the load. Father is here to take the weight off our shoulders, (or our backs), ease our worries, and take away our fears.

So, I have an idea, bend your knees, but don’t lift…bend your knees and pray. Ask Father to lift the burdens and ease the fears you have.

God knows what we are going through. I believe he’s longing for us to be closer to him. We are strengthened and more free by a closer relationship with Father.

Stop doing the heavy lifting and let God carry some of the load.

1 Peter 5:6-7 
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.