Faith Series - Burden

My mum is deaf on one side due to the radiation treatment she went through a couple of years ago due to nose cancer. She survived the advanced stage miraculously.

So each time if she mentioned about unable to hear me over the phone, it will bring me back to the stage when she was unwell. It can be quite painful as it triggers the memories of the ordeal.

Recently she kept talking about unable to hear me over the phone and the emotions and anxiety that overwhelmed me became a burden. I became so obsessed about it. My imagination ran wild, what if and what if??

That night, I sensed a heavy burden like the weight of a huge stone in my heart. I don’t like to hear it or see it and I can’t remove the weight. So under the blanket I dived and pray. I prayed, " God can you remove that burden from me?"

Somehow throughout the conversation, I sense something. And here’s how the conversation goes.

"Jesus. You saw Him and hear Him on the cross, right?"

"Well..ya.."

"Do you love Him? You saw the blood. Do you feel it a burden?

If Jesus is hurt on the Cross, you don’t resist the love you have for Him, right, You don’t feel the burden, do you? Do you cover your eyes and run away and become in denial of the pain that He suffer? You don’t. you love Him even more. You yield to Him even more. You are free to love Him and so much. There is no burden. You are liberated to love. You don't carry His burden. He carry the burden for you and died on the cross for you instead."

So the same applies. When you love your mum so much, there is no burden. All burdens dissipate. His grace in you will enable you so."


Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.