What We Can Bear
Learn to rejoice in God continually, trusting in His guidance, provision, and eternal plan for your life.
Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about finding joy and contentment in God, trusting Him to provide for all our needs according to His riches in glory. She emphasizes the importance of surrendering our burdens to God, knowing that He has a purpose for everything He provides, whether little or much, for our ultimate good. Tileston encourages believers to rejoice continually in God, recognizing His love and care in orchestrating circumstances to make us partakers of His goodness and bring us closer to Him.
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Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
PSALMS 119:54
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
PHILIPPIANS 4:19
HOW must the pilgrim's load be borne?
With staggering limbs and look forlorn?
His Guide chose all that load within;
There's need of everything but sin.
So, trusting Him whose love He knows,
Singing along the road he goes;
And nightly of his burden makes
A pillow, till the morning breaks.
LUCY LARCOM
THEY live contented with what they have, whether it be little or much, because they know that they receive as much as is profitable for them; little, if little be profitable, and much, if much be profitable for them, but the Lord only can, who has an eternal end in view in all things which He provides.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
I hope you will learn, what I am always hoping to learn, to rejoice in God continually, knowing that He is really ordering all your circumstances to the one end of making you a partaker of His own good-ness, and bringing you within His own sympathy.
THOMAS ERSKINE
Sermon Outline
- The Pilgrim's Load
- The Source of Supply
- The Attitude of Contentment
- The Joy of Trusting God
- The weight of life's challenges
- The need for guidance and trust
- God's riches in glory
- Christ Jesus as our supplier
- Living with what we have
- Knowing God's eternal plan
- Rejoicing in God's sovereignty
- Trusting God's goodness and sympathy
Key Quotes
“His Guide chose all that load within; There's need of everything but sin.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“THEY live contented with what they have, whether it be little or much, because they know that they receive as much as is profitable for them;” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“I hope you will learn, what I am always hoping to learn, to rejoice in God continually, knowing that He is really ordering all your circumstances to the one end of making you a partaker of His own good-ness,” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Trust in God's guidance and provision to bear the weight of life's challenges.
- Cultivate contentment with what you have, knowing that God's provision is always profitable for you.
- Rejoice in God's sovereignty and trust in His goodness and sympathy in all circumstances.