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Do you ever have one of those days where you just feel a little off? You're not sure what exactly it is but you just don't quite have the same hitch in your giddy-up?

Sunday was one of those days for me. I didn't really feel that great on Sunday and I was tired but it wasn't a bad day, it was really good however there was just something else that was throwing me off.

But then I went to church and we started off the song service with It Is Well With My Soul. (sigh) That hymn can minister and at times be more piercing to the heart than some sermons. We started singing and I was overwhelmed when we reached this line:

My sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!

I don't have to bear ANY burdens anymore!!

Sometimes, don't you just want to shout with joy for what God has done?! Oh man, sometimes I don't know if I can contain myself. Once we accept Christ as our Savior, we lay ALL of our burdens and sins down and we never have to pick them up and bear them anymore. Who else can offer that?

I haven't gotten over that line all week!

I see people all around me having anxiety or insomnia due to stress. Stress over all kinds of things, stress over everything but we as Christians don't have to bear that burden of stress. We can lay our stresses, our worries, our burdens at the foot of the cross and He will handle them.

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

He call us to Him. He wants us to bring our burden and worries to Him. I was thinking about this the other day and I thought of it as though God was saying to me "Don't worry about it, Amy. Let me worry about. Let me handle it. I'll make sure it all works out. You just focus on doing the things I have already given you to do and leave the worrying to me."

I'll tell you what, that was a comfort! I hate making decisions and I hate having to make decisions on my own sometimes. But He just gave me this reminder that I never really do have to make decisions on my own, I can take them to Him, we can discuss it together and if I am patient enough, He'll tell me the right thing to do.

"Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him" Psalm 37:7

So thankful this week that I can simply rest in Him because He has taken care of all my sins and He will take care of all my worries and burdens.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

It is well, with my soul,