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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, July 16, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 5

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ROLL YOUR BURDEN UPON GOD.

By B. S. Barnes

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is staid on thee.” Blessed thought! Kept in perfect peace by our heavenly Father! What precious promises we have in the word of God. Feeling burdened, we read, “Cast your burden on the Lord.” The load seems heavy at times to do even this; but turning to the original we find it, “Roll your burden upon God.” This is the word to the weary soul. We can in passive trust roll the burden upon God, and feel Christ an all-sufficiency. Thank God, who supplieth all our needs.
Oh! how my soul shrinks from cultivating singularity for mere singularity’s sake. But when new sacrifices are in the narrow way, though they be heavy as “Pilgrim’s” load, we should double our consecration, do every duty, let men think as they will. The Lord is our Shepherd, and we must follow him. He leads us by still waters and in the paths of righteousness. Christian’s journey is most finished. Yes, we are
“Nearer the port by every wave!”
Praise God! Even now we can see our Father’s house peering in the distance. A few more struggles, and the conflict will be ended. We shall have fought the fight, and finished our course; and blessed will it be if our Father in Heaven shall say unto us, Enter in where “the wilderness shall be as Eden, and the desert as the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.”
B. S. BARNES. Battle Creek, July 4, 1867.