Saturday December 16, 2023
Numbers 11:14
The burden is too heavy for me.
The pressures and problems bore down on Moses like burdens on a camel’s back. The last straw came when the children of Israel grumbled and whined about their menu in the wilderness. Moses couldn’t stand it any longer: “Moses said to the Lord, ‘Why have You . . . laid the burden of all these people on me? Did I conceive all these people?… Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? . . . I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me’ ” (Numbers 11:11–14).
For us, the problem may not be “all these people” but “all these problems,” or “all this pain,” or “all these pressures.” We feel like the patriarch Jacob, who said, “All these things are against me” (Genesis 42:36). But the Bible says that all these things work together for good to those who love the Lord (Romans 8:28), and Romans 8:37 says, “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
Like a camel with a heavy burden, we sometimes need to kneel in the desert place and let the Lord take care of things, down to the last straw.
Every time a Christian goes through the Valley of Trouble,
there is always a door of hope.
UNKNOWN
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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