Check Your Load

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness, where your father's tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works for 40 years.

Therefore I was provoked with that generation and said, "They always go astray in their hearts, and they have not known My ways."

So I swore in My anger, "They will not enter My rest." Hebrews 3:7-11

The above scriptures originally came from Psalm 95:7-11 and referred to Exodus 17:7. It is like a paper trail. As we follow back we see a very contentious people who grumbled and complained a lot and irritated the Lord.

The writer of Hebrews encourages us to not harden our hearts, as the Hebrews had done in their rebellion. God, correctly sums them up and says, 'they always go astray in their hearts.'

Now as a born again believer we are to make our Saviour Lord and submit our lives to Him, so that all our carnal appetites are dead and that we are alive to His Spirit.

The blessing of his submission is rest, godly rest. Jesus said: " My yoke is easy and My burden is light." If our burden is heavy then perhaps we are under another's load, Satan's load or our own carnal load.

The scripture give us assurance that Jesus did not come to burden us so therefore we can do an assessment on our load. If it is heavy we need to examine whose it is and deal with it accordingly. Amen!