Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart
and ye shall find rest into your souls. For my yoke is wasy and my burden is
light. Matthew
11:28 KJV
It wasn’t until I reached my age
of reason – so near 65 I can taste it – that I realized just how fast the world
is spinning. We can reach destinations hundreds of miles away in a matter of
hours. We can hear the voice of someone that is in another country just by
punching in a few numbers into that mystery box we call a cell phone. The list
goes on and on. We are moving at the speed of light and most times we don’t even
leave the safety and comfort of our homes or offices. We conduct business and make major money
transactions through a computer screen. Information flies at us from every
direction imaginable. Because of this age of technology, we spin. We spin
faster and faster with each year and new “gotta have it” device.
We have become a nation of tired
and burdened folk. We work day after day trying desperately to keep up and keep
in step with what our culture now believes is necessary to find that most
elusive happiness or success. If we don’t
make the grade, anger and total dissatisfaction step in. We are miserable and
make everyone else around us most miserable. We have unrealistic expectations that define peace as having the latest gadget or gizmo. Life’s treadmill is our
continual placement of one foot in front of the other and not moving anywhere.
We are tired from all that running in place. True?
It is clear that the Lord is
telling us that what we are struggling for is not found in the latest Apple Watch,
or tablet, house, car or on Facebook. True happiness and success is not
measured by what we have or what it is that we do. Having nice stuff is great
and if God blessed you with something be grateful. The 11th Chapter
of Matthew, however, is asking us to keep it all in perspective. Things will
never define who we are and whose we are.
Our burden continues to be our
struggle to get and to show off. Jesus is speaking and telling us that it is time to fully submit to Him and He will take struggle out of life’s
equation. Through our surrender, and only through our surrender, will we find
rest, peace, happiness, success. If we are truly striving to be more like
Christ we should know that His soul is a soul rested. Jesus knows what it means
to let go of the worry of not having enough. We are to let go of the struggle and
the burdens we face in this life and we will find the ultimate rest. We will have that peace and succes in our homes, on our jobs and in our ministries.
As I get older and with an
ever growing desire to be more like Him I better understand His humility and His
humanity. Doing life His way is so much easier for His burden is indeed light.
#soulwriter
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What I Thought Was So Just Ain't - Aging through God's Grace
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