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“My soul waits in silence for God alone; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will not be greatly shaken.”

—Psalm 62:1–2

Seeking help from others or working toward a solution by our own means is not wrong, but our tendency is to seek help in all those other places before we lay it before the Lord. We often live in feverish concern about a thing before we finally hand it over to him and say, “This is too much for me.”

But a loving parent doesn’t want to wait to help their children until after they’ve worked themselves into a frenzy of exhaustion trying to do something on their own.

The loving parent is always ready: “Here, let me teach you; let me help you. This is really heavy. Let me carry it.”

God is that loving parent. He knows we can’t handle all the burdens this world hands us. We aren’t meant to. We’re meant to cast our burdens and anxieties on our heavenly Father (Psalm 55:22; 1 Peter 5:7).

All of them can be laid at his feet. We don’t have to complain, cajole, wear ourselves out, or get angry before God is willing to step in.

How many of our needs would be met through the Lord’s provision if we took them to him instead of dragging them around with us everywhere else first?

He is our stronghold, and only in him will we remain unshaken even when the world is unsteady.

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