I saw a comical thing when I was coming home from work today. I was driving my usual route, This includes a road with an incline toward an intersection. There was quite a queue of cars lined down from the intersection all waiting for their moment to cross. About half way up the incline, on the verge/pavement/sidewalk a taxi had pulled off and stopped. Now we are not talking about a yellow cab type taxi, we are talking about a mini bus/combi type.
It definitely wasn't a new taxi. I noticed that all the passengers were climbing out of the taxi. It was like a never ending stream of them, just when I thought surely there can't be anymore in there, another one would climb out. Seeing all the passengers exit, made me assume that their taxi had broken down. Then the passengers began to walk up the incline and cross over the intersection. At first I thought this was odd but then thought maybe they were more likely to catch a new ride at the 4 way stop.
Next thing their taxi pulls off the verge and back into the queue of cars, eventually drives up the incline and crosses over the intersection. As he starts his decent across the road, he pulls over and all his passengers get back in. I was in hysterics. Obviously the "burden" of passengers was too much for his taxi to carry up the hill. If that taxi could talk I can imagine it repeating the train's mantra "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can". but it couldn't. It had to unload the burden to make it to the top.
When you are trying to come up out of the valley and find your mountain top, I advise you to do the same. Don't try use your own strength and will power to get there. Because like the taxi I saw today, you can't. Will power is not enough to get you up the hill if you are carry a burden.
1 Peter 5:7 [The Voice translation]
Since God cares for you, let Him carry all your burdens and worries.
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