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I. THERE IS AN ENDLESS VARIETY OF THESE BURDENS laid upon us in this world. Care, toil, affliction, trial, weakness, dejection, want, fear, duty, endurance; and for all there is only one relief, "Cast thy burden" — "thy" burden, for there the emphasis is to be laid — "upon the Lord." I will classify these burdens.

1. Those of the flesh; such as, natural weakness, sickness, pain, sensual desires, corrupt affections, wasting toil, poverty.

2. Mental burdens: ignorance, mystery, knowledge; for "he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

3. Social burdens, or burdens of the heart. Their name is legion.

4. Spiritual burdens. That of sin, of spiritual desertion, of fear.

II. THE ENCOURAGEMENTS — We have to cast our burdens upon the Lord.

1. We may do it. He "will not break the bruised reed, nor," etc.

2. Help in bearing our burdens is sure, if we seek aright. "He shall sustain thee." He does not promise to rid us of the burden but to sustain us under it, and that is better still. So was it with Paul. "My grace is sufficient for thee."

(J. M. Sherwood, D. D.)

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KJV: Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

WEB: Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.