The Burden of the Lord

Knowing God can be a heavy burden some are unprepared to take up.
"What?! How dare you say God is a burden! God lifts burdens!"
Yes, that is true, but it is also true that truth can be a great burden, and God is the ultimate truth. In Romans chapter 1, Paul writes a long list of things that are wrong in the Lord's eye. A group of people who knew God and turned away. "Because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God...professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the uncorruptible God into an image like to curruptible man...wherefore God gave them lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served creature more than the creator...God gave them up unto vile affections:for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature; and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men...they did not like to retain God in their knowledge...being filled with all unrightousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents. Without understanding, covenant breakers without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;
Who knowing the judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them" ~Romans 1:21-32
Many people get out of that a long list of sins. It is one of the most quoted scriptures when people are defending their stance against homosexuality. But they are missing the most important line of the entire chapter! The last verse.
"Who knowing the judgements of God" That means they knew about God and his laws. "not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them"
They knew what they were doing went against God's laws, and they not only did them, but they surrounded themselves with people who did them and took pleasure in doing that! That is a worse sin than any of the sins that Paul lists. That is the sin that Paul says is more unforgivable. Others were doing the same thing they were, but because they had no knowledge, the people that did know were the ones who made the greater sin. All were sins "worthy of death" ~Romans 1:32 But it was far worse for those who knew they were wrong.
That is the burden of the Lord. To know the truth, and figure out for yourselves what you do with that truth. That is why Isaiah and Malachi call it "The burden of the word of the Lord" ~Malachi 1:1