“Blessed be the Lord, who carries my burden day after day” —Psalm 68:19
What is my burden today? Endurance with joy: “To lark and leap on shanks grown dry as sticks!"
I can only do that as God “carries my burden”—literally, “carries that which is to me”—a particularization that greatly encourages me: My burden is His.
When my burden becomes too great to bear I can shrug it off my shoulders, knowing that the Lord will take it up and carry it for me “day|day," as the text puts it. He will do so because he cares for me (1Peter 5:7).
As for tomorrow? Well, I shall have to do it all over again.
What Thou shalt today provide,
Let me as a child receive;
What tomorrow may betide,
Calmly to Thy wisdom leave:
’Tis enough that Thou wilt care,
Why then should I the burden bear? —John Newton
David Roper
