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I. EVERY HUMAN LIFE HAS ITS BURDEN. "Thy burden." There is a physical, social, moral, religious burden. Burden suggests three thoughts.

1. Unnaturalness. We are not born with burdens. Have angels and innocent beings a heavy burden? I trow not.

2. Oppression. A burden presses one down. Life's burden often presses heavily on all the powers of one's nature, corporal, mental, and moral. Christ saw the race "heavy laden."

3. Obstruction. How a burden retards the traveller's progress. By reason of the load that presses on us we cannot move on in the path of life.

II. EVERY HUMAN LIFE MAY HAVE ITS RELIEF. "Cast thy burden on the Lord."

1. The Lord will bear the burden. He will bear it, either by removing it altogether, or by imparting strength more than equal to its pressure.

2. There is a method of transferring the burden. The more the confidence the more the burden is transferred. God is more than a counsel for our legal embarrassments, more than a physician for our diseases, more than a father in whom to repose all our concerns.

(Homilist.)

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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.