Matthew 11: 28-30, “Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from Me, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
This is the need for many who feel overburdened, with many trying to do too many tasks, and have many worries, just from living in our society and world at this present time. I have found that that the offer from Jesus is true, as He says He will give and do and does so, time after time.
The word Yoke – conjures up being kept down or forced, but is not true in this case, and nothing is forced upon me, for Jesus always comes to us only when we choose Him freely of our own will. I can take on the guidance of Jesus in what I do and how I proceed, much as it is through the yoke, oxen are directed.
Jesus is a lovely example of love, meekness and humility never ‘puffing’ Himself up in ‘self-importance’ or doing things for His own selfish purposes. His reason for coming to earth was to overcome Satan, sin and death and help the sickness and spiritual darkness and oppression of the people; and so save all who believed in and accepted Him.
He was very humble, and lived a simple, self-sacrificing life, without worldly ‘trappings’. This was how He was, and could accomplish what He and His Father had agreed upon at the beginning of earth; which was to bring salvation to the people of earth, if they succumbed to the temptation of Satan at any time and gave him allegiance over God. Amazingly we are so loved by God the Father and His Son, that we were never abandoned to our fate and a new world with people on it created in our stead.
Today let us take Him at His word, and come to Jesus and accept Him and allow Him to guide our direction and movements, and He will deliver the promised ‘rest for my soul’, I do not need to run around frantically without direction and hope of eternal life.
Matthew 6: 31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ’What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?” Verse 33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”