"Hold Me LORD!"

"His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me." (S.O.S. 2:6)

  Just to be clear, there is absolutely no way that I can keep going without this verse being a reality in my life; I just wanted to make that clear. I have had the opportunity to share that with several people, because I believe it is important to our walk, or run, or even our crawl; whatever it is that you want to call the experience you are living in, it is not the same without truly believing that He holds your life within His hands!
  Those that might be listening who have once walked with the Lord, but have given up because of certain trials or unfulfilled expectations, you don't need to keep holding onto your burdens and feeling the weight of your shame. I seriously do not say those things lightly! In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus is speaking about how we can find rest from our heavy burdens and the task involved in trying to keep moving forward and not giving up.
  Not that I have mastered anything, because if I try and claim that I have, I would be fooling myself and walking away in shame. That is what I meant by the weight of shame, because anytime we take the credit for something that we have given over to God, it becomes a weight on our shoulders that we carry around like a yoke. Just as important, is the thing we do to ourselves with how we treat the Lord with unfulfilled expectations; the things we ask Him to do, expecting Him to do what we ask, and then hold it against Him when it does not turn out the way that we anticipated it would.
  This is so much connected that "yoke" around our necks, we sometimes can't even realize what kind of shame it gives us, because we are looking at it from a point of being disappointed. It needs to be perfectly clear in our minds, the yoke we are wearing belongs to us; we made that yoke and fastened it around our own neck; because the yoke that Jesus wants us to wear is His!
  Maybe the easiest way to understand what this means, is to look at the yoke and a scale; much like if you were to carry a beam upon your shoulder, and each side is equal in weight: and now imagine what it would be like to carry that same beam with uneven weight, one side totally heavier than the other. What a struggle it would be to stay upright and not lean to one side or the other.
  Add to that the weight of the load that you are carrying, and you have a serious burden just to try and make through every day. I hope you see the connection, because when He holds you, He holds you so that you do not fall...

"For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intersession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:24-28)