This has been a hard week for many with the hyperbole of our political scene, but remember that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

…27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. 28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:27-28

In the '70s when I was in high school, this was one of the songs that helped me to accept Jesus Christ aa my Savior and Lord of my life. I remember buying a Chuck Girard 8-track tape and listening to it through my headphones. The lyrics helped comfort me so I could drift off to sleep before the start of a brand new day. As you listen to the lyrics you realize this song continues to be relevant even for today. 

I remember seeing a friends picture consisting of trunks of all of his earthly possessions as he described his move overseas.  Our burdens can be described as the trunks in that picture.  How many of us would rather carry our burdens, our stresses, and our pain on our backs thinking we can solve our problems without turning to the one source for our comfort-God's son who He sacrifices his life for us all? 

This week has been another burden filled week of impeachment proceedings and wondering what's going to happen to us in the meantime.  In the 1970's when this song was first published there was another President facing impeachment proceedings who resigned; yet, we survived.  World and local events will come and go, but we must keep in mind that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2013:8&version=NIV.
There was crime in the '70s just as there is crime today, but our Savior is the same. He is the living water who gives us life. "But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."  https://www.openbible.info/topics/living_water
When grief enters your soul and life become too much to bear, I encourage you to lay your burden down, open up the bible and read the Gospel of John about the promises God has for you. Then, consider inviting the Savior into your life.

Lay your burden down, lay your burden down

Take your troubled soul, your tired mind

And lay your burden down

Lay your burden down, get your feet on solid ground

Take your worries to the foot of the cross, and lay your burden down

Lay your burden down, lay your burden down

Take your weary life, your heavy load, and lay your burden down

Lay your burden down, get your feet on solid ground

Take your failures to the foot of the cross, and lay your burden down

(Lay your burden down)

You've been tryin' hard to make it all alone

Tryin' hard to make it on your own

And the strength you once were feelin', isn't there no more

And you think the wrong you've done, is just too much to be forgiven

But you know that isn't true

Just lay your burden down,...He has Forgiven you

Lay your burden down, lay your burden down

Take your burden to the cross, and lay it down

Lay your burden down, lay your burden down

Take your worries to the cross and lay them down