Entrust Your Days and Burdens

Entrust Your Days and Burdens

LSB #754

v. 1: Entrust your days and burdens
To God’s most loving hand;
He cares for you while ruling
The sky, the sea, the land.
For He who guides the tempests
Along their thundrous ways
Will find for you a pathway
And guide you all your days.

This seems like a most appropriate hymn to meditate on especially in these days of fear and panic because of the coronavirus. Entrust your days and burdens to God, your Father; to His loving hands. He cares for you. He does not cut and run when the going gets tough - the cross shows us that! He stays. He loves. He gives. He saves. The things that are out of your control and not out of His. So rely on Him. This hymn was written by a man who lived through very scary times himself, with disease, war, and a lot of death. But it is especially in those times of fear and uncertainty, times when our faith is tested and perhaps shaken, times when we see how weak and vulnerable we are, times when we are forced to turn to God because there really is no where else to turn, that our faith grows and is strengthened. And so those turn out to be times of trouble that God turns and uses for our good. So in the days of worry and distress and uncertainty, turn to Your loving Father and Your Saviour Jesus. Entrust your days to Him who has made your days, and your life, eternal.