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  SELF: THE GREATEST BURDEN
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The greatest burden we have to carry in life is self, and we
must hand ourselves and our inward experiences over to God's care and
keeping.

Topics: "Surrender To God", "Spiritual Freedom"
Scripture References: Psalm 34:17, Psalm 55:22, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 11:28, 1 Peter 5:7

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the burden of self as the greatest
challenge in life, urging listeners to surrender themselves, along with
their weaknesses, temptations, and inward struggles, to God's care. By
entrusting God with their innermost experiences and complexities,
individuals can find comfort, guidance, and freedom from bondage and
darkness. Tileston highlights the importance of handing over one's
burdens to God, who uniquely understands and can manage each person
according to His wisdom and love.

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The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh, bring Thou me out of my
distresses.

--PSALMS 25:17

Low at His feet lay thy burden of carefulness,

High on His heart He will bear it for thee,

Comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy prayerfulness,

Guiding thy steps as may best for thee be.

--J. S. B. MONSELL

THE greatest burden we have to carry in life is self. The most difficult
thing we have to manage is self. Our own daily living, our frames and
feelings, our especial weaknesses and temptations, and our peculiar
temperaments,--our inward affairs of every kind,--these are the things
that perplex and worry us more than anything else, and that bring us
oftenest into bondage and darkness. In laying off your burdens,
therefore, the first one you must get rid of is yourself. You must hand
yourself and all your inward expe.riences, your temptations, your
temperament, your frames and reelings, all over into the care and
keeping of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He
understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to
do it.

--HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/self-the-greatest-burden/
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