Come To Me
Matthew 11:28-20
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.
For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good – not harsh, hard, sharp or pressing, but comfortable, gracious and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.
Jesus is calling us to come to Him Who will take care of us. We are to give Him all burdens and those things that weigh us down. Actually, His yoke is really not a yoke in terms of bondage. It is a joining together with Him like oxen are joined together with a yoke. When we join with Him and operate as one, yielding ourselves to Him, His anointing of Love and Life removes the burdens for us and destroys the yokes of bondage that satan has attempted to place on us.
What Jesus asks us to bear is really not a burden. We are to bear love and goodness and peace and tranquility and health and happiness and joy and prosperity. Those are the kinds of things that we are designed to carry. We were never designed by God to carry anything but His goodness and nature. Anything else is foreign to us and an enemy. We are no longer yoked to our enemy satan. He is our foe and opposed to us. What we do is cast the whole of our cares on the Lord and hook up with Him in unity of heart. Every day we must do that----join with Him Who is all Life and Love.
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.
For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good – not harsh, hard, sharp or pressing, but comfortable, gracious and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.
Jesus is calling us to come to Him Who will take care of us. We are to give Him all burdens and those things that weigh us down. Actually, His yoke is really not a yoke in terms of bondage. It is a joining together with Him like oxen are joined together with a yoke. When we join with Him and operate as one, yielding ourselves to Him, His anointing of Love and Life removes the burdens for us and destroys the yokes of bondage that satan has attempted to place on us.
What Jesus asks us to bear is really not a burden. We are to bear love and goodness and peace and tranquility and health and happiness and joy and prosperity. Those are the kinds of things that we are designed to carry. We were never designed by God to carry anything but His goodness and nature. Anything else is foreign to us and an enemy. We are no longer yoked to our enemy satan. He is our foe and opposed to us. What we do is cast the whole of our cares on the Lord and hook up with Him in unity of heart. Every day we must do that----join with Him Who is all Life and Love.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 9:40 AM
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