Lay Down Your Burdens

Strangest dream. My neighbor offered to let me buy his kayak. He unlocked the doors (?) and told me to look it over as long as I liked. I sat in the kayak and wondered how an 8-foot kayak could be so huge. I got out and explored the kayak and kept thinking, this is like an RV with chairs, a stove, change of clothes, extra chair for extra passenger...How could anyone paddle this thing? It must be terribly heavy to try to cart all this stuff with only one person paddling. In fact, it seemed to me, impossible. I wanted all this stuff at journey's end for sure...it would make the place where I hit shore to rest very luxurious...but there was no way I would buy a kayak equipped with all this stuff that would make the journey impossible.

Get it?

We all carry burdens we were never meant to carry, shouldn't be carrying, that weigh us down, overwhelm us, and make the journey a misery. In Matthew 28:11, Jesus tells us, "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.…"

I suddenly realized at the end of my dream that the kayak was inside the RV. If I just pulled only the kayak out, and left all the rest behind, that was all I needed.
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Psalm 55:22 

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Galatians 6:2 

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:1-3 

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.