Why do we struggle so much to let go of burdens that are weighing us down?

To bring them to His feet and leave them there. To not go back and pick it up.

Why do we think we can do a better job than the Lord when He says in Matthew 11:30 “my yoke is easy, and my burden is light“. Do we not believe? Do I not believe?

The truth is I really can’t say I have allowed myself to wholly trust the Lord my Father. When there are fractures, how do I learn to trust my Heavenly Father? How do I get out of the cycle of only relying on myself. The cycle of depending on myself and myself alone. How do I get off that pathway.

Because Lord I want to trust you. I want to surrender. I want to cast down all my burdens on you and pick up your yoke. I want to but I can’t…or shall I say I don’t know how to.

Yet you still call me, beckoning for me to just come. You know my heart, you see the pieces I am trying to hold together. And I don’t believe you expect me to shift in a moment after 30 years of living this way.

But you ask me to come.

Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened”.

I’m weary. I’m tired of carrying what was never mine to carry.

Come. Sit at my feet. Rest.

Let’s go to Him.