Rev. Don Campbell
If we find God’s word burdensome, one of three things is true.
One, we are not saved.
Two, we are saved but are struggling with our faith.
Three, we are misreading the word of God—or being misled by others who misread it.
Jesus warned of such persons: “For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger” (Matthew 23:3-4).
If our roots of faith run deep in the soil of truth, then just like the roots of the giant cottonwoods that line the streambeds in the west, we will not be uprooted by every wind of doctrine that Satan sends our way. The Word says, “He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither” (Psalm 1:3).
