DAILY READINGS: Gen. 13-14; Job 16-17; Matt . 8:1-27
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. Amos 2:13
How troublesome is man’s sin to God’s heart? Amos says it is a great burden—like a cart crushed under a full load of grain. Isaiah says that sin wearies God (43:24); Ezekiel says it has broken Him (6:9); and the psalmist writes that sin grieves God (95:10). The wonder of the gospel is that God caused His heart’s joy, His sinless Son, to be sin for us, that we might have our burden of sin removed (2 Cor 5:21). Are you still under the weight of sin? Would you like to be forgiven? Trust Christ who bore the full wrath of your sin. —Warren Henderson
O Christ, what burdens bowed Thy head! Our load was laid on Thee.
Thou stood within the sinner’s stead; to bear all ill for me.—A. Ross Cousins