Lean Hard...

This poem has been on my heart for a long time now. I don't remember how I came across it, but ever since I read it a year or so ago, it has remained a beautiful song of truth to my often weary and forgetful heart. No matter how chaotic or confusing or disheartening or exhausting things of this world may be, they are known. Because I am known. And the One who knows me loves me well enough to endure all things for me... He is working it all together for my good and His glory, and I can't help but rejoice in that.

“Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. ” (Psalm 55:22)

Lean Hard

Child of My love, lean hard,

And let Me feel the pressure of thy care;

I know thy burden, child, I shaped it;

Poised it in My own hand, made no proportion in its weight to thine unaided strength;

For even as I laid it on, I said

I shall be near, and while he leans on Me,

This burden shall be Mine, not his;

So shall I keep My child within the circling arms of My own love.

Here lay it down, nor fear to impose it on a shoulder which upholds the government of worlds.

Yet closer come; thou art not near enough;

I would embrace thy care so I might feel My child reposing on My breast.

Thou lovest Me? I know it. Doubt not then;

But, loving Me, lean hard.

-- May Prentiss Smith

  I thank the Lord for how He reminds me that, in all things, I need Him... and Him alone. And He will always be there, sustaining as I lean hard into Him.

“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your cares upon Him; because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).