October 22: The Burden Only Christ Can Lift

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Mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. Psalm 38:44For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psalm 38:4)
SA 38:4{So much too heavy for you, that if you do not accept Christ's offer of rest from that burden, you will never be able to find or follow the path of life. But why bear it one minute longer when Jesus says, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest"? But stay; you may, or rather you must, put in a double claim to the promise. You may not be consciously, particularly weary or laboring; but whether conscious of it or not, you are heavy laden, unless the one great burden of sin is taken away from you. It is a fact, whether the Holy Spirit has convinced you of it or not as yet, that unless your iniquity is taken away by personal washing in the only Fountain, you are in the position described by the Psalmist.
Bring every weary burden,
Thy sin, thy fear, thy grief;
He calls the heavy laden,
And gives them kind relief.