Pastor David McGee’s Devotional 2 May 2021 – Overburdened?

Pastor David McGee’s Devotional 2 May 2021 Cross the Bridge Daily Devotional Message

Topic: Overburdened?

Acts 27:19
On the third day, we threw the ship’s tackle overboard with our own hands. – NKJV

Dear Friend,

Did you know that ships have a line drawn along the hull to indicate their burden? If the line goes too far beneath the water, the sailors know there is too much cargo on board. This allows the sailor to take the necessary steps to avoid disaster. Wouldn’t it be great if we had indicators on us? In Acts 27, Paul, now a prisoner, was taken by ship to Rome where he and the ship’s crew encounter a mighty storm. In danger of shipwreck, the ship’s crew threw overboard the cargo they once had considered necessities. Timing and events can really change the way we look at things. We fill our lives with ‘tackle’ and ‘rigging’ that is not important to the eternal plan. Often, we get distracted by those things and cling to them rather than to God. We think… “Oh, I need this” or “I just can’t live without that,” but soon, overburdened, we hit a storm and sink.

Hebrews 12:1
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, NKJV

What’s in your cargo hold? Are you carrying bitterness? Is there someone you need to forgive? Is your ship laden with shame? Are you hauling around guilt or sin? In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus said “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Friend, why carry burdens around when you don’t have to? Won’t you lay your burdens at the foot of the cross?

Life Lesson: 
Lay your burdens down at the foot of the cross.

Dear God,
Thank You for loving me. Please forgive me for my sins and show me the burdens I carry that You want to remove. There may be things I’m not aware of that are distracting me from the best that You have for me. Please show me these things so that I can give them over to You. I pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Through the Bible…
Morning: 1 Kings 3, 4, 5
Evening: Luke 23:1-26
Proverb: Proverbs 2

Living to tell what He died to say,
Pastor David McGee

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