Acts 21:3 KJV
Now when we
had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and
landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.
It is the nature of a
shipping vessel to regularly "unlade her burden". While she is
constructed specifically for the purpose of carrying a burden, without frequent
stops to "unlade her burden" she will soon become useless. She was
not constructed to keep her burden, only to carry it to the next port. To hold
on to the burden is unnecessary and wrong. To keep adding burdens on top of
those not yet unladen could cause the ship to flounder and risk shipwreck.
I would never try to convince
a person that, if they will become a believer or, as a believer, if they would
just walk closely with Jesus, they will never have burdens. Life on this planet
is a life of burdens.
· Some of them are the result of sin and Satan
· Some burdens are the will of God for us as He
molds us in to the image of His Son
I would never advocate an
attempt to live life without burdens and responsibilities. But neither would I
encourage that believer to carry those burdens without regular stops to unlade
the burden.
That harbor at which we
unload is Jesus Christ. Regular and frequent stops to meet with the Lord, to
hear what He has to say in His Word and to give to Him these burdens that we
carry; these are the things that keeps us from sinking in the storms of life.
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