Pick me up

PICK ME UP
Pastor Riaan du Toit
My brother in law has this cute little girl that follows her mother everywhere. Her deepest cry is “pick me up!” As her mother picks her up, the phone rings, the gate alarm goes off, the kettle boils and the gardener wants to know whether he could leave earlier today. All of these tasks (multi tasking of a housewife) is done with this “pick me up” in her arms. At the end of the day when exhaustion settles in and it all becomes too much, we dread the possibility of another day like this!

We are just like that in many ways. We pick up so many things along the way that wear us down and instead of dealing with what we have picked up, we try to handle everything else in our lives to the best of our ability with our hands filled with “pick me up things”

LUKE 19:30-34 Jesus says to the disciples, “As you go, you will find a donkey'scolt tied.” Too many times we live our lives tied down like this. There was nothing wrong with this beast of burden apart from the fact that it was tied down ! The trap of today’s society is that we are so tied up that what God actually wants to use us for becomes too much !

Allow me to illustrate:

There was once a man with an imaginary friend. It was a little puppy. At first he would groom this imaginary friend and after a while he thought it a good idea to start feeding this friend. After a while he got more and more involved with this friend and had to bathe it and so on !

This friend became unbearable and demanded his time more and more. He would barely be on the phone or this friend would scream out "pick me up" He would scarcely be in the car or this friend would scream "pick me up" This imaginary friend started demanding more and more of his time to the point that he had to walk, talk and eat with this thing in his arms all the time!

Then this thing started demanding time even when he tried to sleep. It would scream out "pick me up" the moment he fell asleep. Totally consuming him, his time and his relationships. It constantly demanded "pick me up" It finally drove him nuts. He ended up in an institution where all he could do and did was, held this imaginary thing which by now was six times his actual size!

Every moment he had for himself was consumed by this constant demand of "pick me up!" It seemed that the people in the nut house understood because it was madness! We pick up stuff like this all the time. We carry it a bit in the beginning and have the power to put it down. It suddenly demands from me "pick me up." It starts consuming our friendships, rest and every activity, crying out "pick me up!"

Then it starts devouring my sleep screaming out "pick me up!" It's totally overgrown, a beast! I can't put it down anymore!You can break the cycle and put it down!

In HEBREWS 12 it instructs us to strip off and throw aside every encumbrance, meaning get rid of unnecessary weight and that sin which so cleverly clings to us. It tells us that we have the power to put it down!

Let it go!

We must come to the place where we cast the whole of our care upon Him. Come to the place where we cast all of our anxieties, all our worries, all our concerns, once and for all on Him.He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully (1 Peter 5:7).