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Every day brings its unique joys and challenges. Sometime life feels light and joyful. Other days, life feels heavy and burdensome. During some seasons of life, every day contains some or a lot of heaviness. Thankfully, God is aware of all we go through. Though others might not recognize our struggles or not even care about them, God sees all.

Psalm 68:19 is greatly comforting in this. “Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.” This means that the Lord comes alongside us everyday to help bear our struggles. To bear someone else’s burdens is to sympathize, identify with and become involved in the person’s life so that they do not have to face it alone.

So parents at home with your little ones – God knows the burdens you face in keeping each one occupied and busy. Ask for His wisdom throughout the day for help with each child.

Seniors at home alone, God knows the burden you may carry of loneliness or missing your family. So ask for God’s presence to comfort you. Thank Him that you have loving relationships that you miss and look forward to renewing.

Workers – working from home or now home without work – God knows the specific challenges you face. He sympathizes with you. He identifies with you and is involved in helping you see the next step He wants you to take. So ask for His wisdom.

University/College Students – God knows the burden you carry in finishing your term and your concern about summer jobs. He knows your fears and concerns about the displacement of your plans. So lift up your worries to Him and ask for His direction for this summer.

Whenever we doubt God’s concern for our burdens, remember that God literally identified with us by becoming human in Jesus. He not only bore the sufferings of the human condition but the judgment we deserved because of our sin. So He will certainly identify with us and bear our burdens today if we will bring them to Him.

“Lord God, sometimes I feel like I can handle life on my own. Then something happens that reminds me of just one of the burdens I carry. Help me to constantly offer them up to you and rest in your help for each of my burdens this day.”