What is Broken Burden?

It’s funny - when I created the name “Broken Burden” - I had a very specific idea in my mind. But as with many things in life, the ideas we start off with are not the ones we end up with. In this case, almost 2 years after the fact, this phrase has come to mean a very different thing to me.

Our burdens age us - they weigh on us like a 2 ton block on our shoulders. They take many different forms. Stress at work. Fights at home. Severed relationships. Unresolved conflicts. The list goes on and on and on.

Burdens keep us up until the late, late hours. They make us question ourselves and the direction our lives have taken. Those big, black bags under your eyes? Burdens. The noticeable loss of hair over the last few weeks? Burdens. The sudden 20 pound weight gain from comfort eating? Burdens.

You’re probably asking “so what?” at this point. “Everyone deals with these things - it’s life.” Tis true; we all have burdens. The question is not whether you have them. The question is whether you are controlling them or if they are controlling you. Are you living a life that is tossed by each wave, small or big? Or are you traversing the waters regardless of the ebb and flow? When Jesus came, He promised that His “…burden is easy and my yoke is light.” And here lies the key of “broken burden” - the ability to fully pass the weight and pain of a burden to Christ. Not in some magical, super-mystical sense but in a real, relational sense. It goes beyond Jesus as God. Beyond the unapproachable. It penetrates to the soul and it cleanses, purifies and heals.

To live the life that Christ intended - that is the broken burden.

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