"What do you do"? was the thought behind Pastor David's sermon on Sunday Morning, August 31, 2014. When you are carrying a burden, it is not only the weight of the burden but also the length of time you have carried it that determines how heavy it is. What do you do when someone you know is drowning spiritually, mentally, or emotionally or even physically and it weighs on your heart greatly. Do you stand on shore and throw out a life line or do you jump in with them and try to help them. Do you cast them upon the LORD. Not for judgement or justice but for mercy and and grace.
The Pharisees brought the woman taken in adultry into the synagogue where Jesus was teaching and cast her at Jesus feet under the law of Moses. They had such pomp, arrogance, and pride to come in and interrupt Jesus teaching and continue to clamor even when he ignored them. He told her accusers to cast the first stone if they were without sin. He leaned down and wrote on the sand. Maybe he was writing the accusers sins(the skeletons in their closets). Their hearts were pricked and they left one by one, the oldest, maybe with the most skeletons, to the youngest. Jesus don't judge but gives her grace and mercy.
If we bring our friends and cast them on the LORD in prayer, what would Jesus do?