Burdens

It don't seem right, black and white And I'm struggling with a war in me And honestly, it's crippling My heart longs to run to you When darkness all around me I just wanna see Where your, where your, where your heart is When desires leave me empty I just wanna be Where your, where your, where your heart is Philippians chapter 2 verse 13 in the amplified classic version of the Bible It says not in your own strength, for it is God who is all the while Effectually at work in you, energizing and creating in you The power and desire both to will and to work His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight Friends, there are words that we use many times in expressing spiritual realities that are difficult for people to relate with And one of them is the word burdens And many times you hear people say, oh, I have a burden in my heart Oh, the spirit of the Lord has laid this burden on my heart And a burden is a motive placed in your heart by God And that motive sometimes comes as a weight And it has to be expressed, if it is not expressed, it will fade away And then you cannot be trusted with divine motives And what a burden is basically is that you are filled in your heart and in your mind to see something done by God And many times we begin to use our own mind And the strength of our own zeal to try to make these things happen Moses had a burden for the children of Israel And he tried to carry it out in his own zeal But he killed someone He became a murderer He became a murderer until he found a ground of fellowship with God Such that he could understand how God wanted to carry out the desire and the budding that he had placed in his heart Friend, the fire of passion can sometimes burn the passionate Don't run into trouble trying to pursue burdens It is God who walks in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure So the strength of your zeal is human error And God who gave you the desire has a way that he wants that thing done He has a way he wants to accomplish it And sometimes we get a bad reputation for wanting to do good You must learn how to manage your desires by checking how God wants this thing done It is not enough to just have a burden You must find the ground of fellowship to understand how God wants it done Have a blessed day friends!