“My yoke is easy, my burden light.” --Jesus

What burdens are you carrying this morning? How heavy is your heart? How weighed down is your spirit?

Most of the time, when we think about that question, we think of the burdens of responsibility we carry or the weight of grief, the sandbags of unfair treatment levied against us, or hardships, such as unemployment, or health, or broken relationships. Certainly, those burdens of despair and sorrow can weigh heavily upon our hearts. But other kinds of burdens can be far more deadly and insidious --and we put them upon ourselves. These kinds of burdens can weigh us down more severely than any of the above-named problems ever could. They sink us like boulders into a quicksand of sin, because they sever us so severely from the will of God.

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