On the top

My devotional this morning had to be shared...

"Crushing weights give the Christian wings. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but it is a blessed truth. David out of some bitter experience cried: 'Oh, that I had wings like a dove for then I would fly away and be at rest.' (Ps. 55:6) But before he finished this meditation, he seems to have realized that his wish for wings was a realizable one. For he says, "Cast they burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.'

The word "burden" is translated in the Bible as "what he (Jehovah) hath given thee." The saints' burdens are God-given; they lead him to "wait upon Jehovah," and trust. The burden becomes a pair of wings and the weighed one "mounts up with wings as eagles."

This is a picture I needed to "see" today. The load we think will crush us was sent to lift us up to God. My place is not beneath the load, but on the top.