Psalm 38:4 -- On the Burden of Sin

"For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me."
Psalm 38:4


We all feel this sometime I think. We make mistakes, and sometimes they are really bad ones, and it's hard to imagine picking up the pieces, or even knowing how to start making things right. When we're feeling overwhelmed like that it is hard to imagine how things could get better, or how to dig ourselves out of the hole that we both dug and then jumped into.

Luckily, with God's help, those overwhelming situations can be overcome. God can help us sort things out... even the hardest ones. He says to us as he said to the woman taken in adultery, "Go, and sin no more." He offers us repentance and forgiveness if we come to him with our whole heart. The trick is letting them go. That's often hard to do until we get to that overwhelmed stage and it really hits us how messed up our lives are, and how we want things to be different. Sometimes we have to go through that pain and almost-crushing disappointment in ourselves in order to be willing to let go of the sin and turn instead to God.

Today, let's do our best to drop our burdens of iniquity and look to God for our redemption and salvation as he gives us another chance to change and to be encircled in his protective embrace.