Title: Anxiety
A man and a little boy
A man and a little boy about five years old were walking homeward from a certain town; the former carrying a parcel. Presently his little companion said, “Please, let me carry the parcel.”
“My dear child, it is too large for you.”
“Oh no! I can carry it. Please let me have it;” using his best endeavors to lay hold on the parcel.
“Very well: you have determined it. The parcel is no burden to me: but, I tell you again, it is too large and heavy for; but, as you will have it, here it is.”
The boy did his best; but it grew heavier, and his strength began to fail. He said, “It is very heavy, indeed!”
“I told you it was too heavy, and yet you would have it.”
“It is very heavy — too heavy: will you please carry it?”
“Surely I will! Why did you not ask me before?”
This occurred nearly twenty years ago. To this day the story serves to discipline the man who had the burdened child for his companion. It has helped him for these years to consider that it is better to roll the lightest burdens at once on God, who is the willing, the gracious burden-bearer, than carry heavy burdens one’s self to God’s dishonor.
Psalms 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
See: Psa 55:22; Psa 68:19; Mat 11:28-30
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