One Minute with GodDevotions /The Weight of 'Should' / Day 1
Do I have to keep carrying all this guilt by myself?
Day 1 of 7 in The Weight of 'Should' (Peace for You) · a one-minute devotional for men on Isaiah 53:6
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Isaiah 53:6
“We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
You know that feeling. You replay the mistakes. You add them up — the things you said wrong, the things you didn't do, the person you meant to be but weren't. It's a heavy list, and you've been the one holding it.
One of the psalms says it plainly: "My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear." That's not weakness. That's honesty. And it uses the right word — burden. Guilt is something you carry. Which means the real question is whether anyone can take it off you.
Isaiah answers in one sentence: "The LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
Laid on him. The weight you have been hauling around — God lifted it off and laid it on Jesus at the cross. Not because you got your act together first. Not because you earned the transfer. He simply decided you were not going to carry it anymore.
That is where your guilt went. It has an address now, and it is not your shoulders.
The guilt was real. So is the relief. The load has already been moved.
A prayer for today
Lord, this weight has been mine so long I forgot I could put it down. But You already moved it. You laid it on Jesus. So I am not carrying it tonight. It was never supposed to be mine. Amen.
The Weight of 'Should' · You carry an invisible backpack stuffed with 'shoulds.' This week, it's gently lifted from your shoulders, and you rest in the freeing truth that you are already enough.
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