What Are You Leaning On?

Everybody leans on something. We lean on people, money, plans, experience, ability, and sometimes just plain stubbornness. None of those things are necessarily bad. The problem is when we put more weight on them than they were built to carry. Usually we don’t notice until something starts to give. The person isn’t there. The money runs short. The plan falls apart. Our own strength finally runs out. The question isn’t whether you lean. Everybody does. The question is: what are you leaning on?

David knew what it was like to carry weight. Psalm 55 is filled with fear, betrayal, pressure, and the desire to get away from it all. Yet David doesn’t say, “Get stronger and carry it.” He says, “Cast thy burden upon the LORD.” Then comes the promise: “he shall sustain thee.” That doesn’t necessarily mean God immediately removes the burden. It means He holds you up beneath it. We spend a lot of time asking God to make us strong enough to handle everything when maybe the lesson is that we were never supposed to handle everything alone. There’s a difference between asking God to make you strong enough to need nothing and discovering that He is strong enough to be what you need.

That’s what these seven days have really been about. Not collecting verses. Learning where to put your weight. God’s Word gives you something solid when everything else starts moving. When fear speaks, when life gets busy, when truth gets uncomfortable, when you don’t understand why, when your own strength isn’t enough, or when your faith needs to become more than words—you lean. And tomorrow there won’t be another page in this little book telling you what to read. That’s when this becomes yours. Find the truth God has given you for where you are, put some weight on it, and discover that His Word can hold you.