The Lord is our burden bearer

"Many Christians, as I have said, love God's will in the abstract, but carry great burdens in connection with it. From this also there is deliverance in teh wonderful life of faith. For in this way of life no burdens are carried, no anxieties felt. The Lord is our burden-bearer, and upon Him we must lay off every care. He says in effect, 'Be careful for nothing, but make your requests known to me, and I will attend to them all.'

Be careful for nothing, He says, not even your service. Why? Because we are so utterly helpless that no matter how careful we were, our service would amount to nothing! What have we to do with thinking whether we are fit or not fit for service? The Master-workman surely has a right to use any tool He pleases for His own work, and it is plainly not the business of the tool to decide whether it is the right one to be used or not. He knows; and if He chooses to use us, of course we must be fit. And in truth, if only we knew it, our chief fitness is in our utter helplessness. His strength is made perfect , not in our strength, but in our weakness. Our strength is only a hindrance."

(Hannah Whitall Smith from Richard Fosters Devotional Classics)