At that time Jesus said,
“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent,
and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son except the Father,
and no one knows the Father except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke on you and learn from me,
because I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy to bear,
and my load is not hard to carry.”
Biblical Studies Press. (2006; 2006). The NET Bible First Edition; Bible. English. NET Bible.; The NET Bible (Mt 11:25-30). Biblical Studies Press.
Right from the first days of our lives we are groomed and encouraged to work very hard to develop our wisdom and be intelligent. At first read here I was ready to throw out all my wisdom. But with a little research it becomes clear that this description was referring to the leadership of the day. They were thinking they had it all figured out and it was their fixture of belief and lack of the openness of a child that kept them from seeing what Christ brought to the world.
So as we advance in our life experiences and gain wisdom we must strive to not let ourselves reach a point where we think we have it all figured out. We need to keep the eyes of our youth to continue to be open what God has to show us. I have come to learn that if we think we have it figured out then basically our view of God is just too small. Our God created all that we see, on earth and in the heavens. I was just watching a show on the Hubble telescope where they pointed Hubble to a blank piece of sky and just let it collect images over several days. It turns out that this empty piece of space contains millions of stars and galaxies. If we let our wisdom rule then we would define that part of space as empty. With our wisdom we would challenge anyone that would say different and in the assertion of our wisdom we would miss all that that piece of space had to offer.
Jesus then went on to say "All things have been handed over to me by my Father." and then we have Jesus's invitation "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." All who are weary could be translated "those who are tired from hard toil" and burden could refer to "those loaded down.
"Take my yoke on you and learn from me,
because I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls. "
People’s weariness comes from enduring their own burdens all by themselves, these burdens would probably be the burdens of sin and its consequences. Jesus is suggesting rather, that we should come and yoke ourselves with Jesus. By placing ourselves under His yoke and learning from Him, we may find rest for our souls from sins’ burdens we carry.
What a loving God we serve. A God that invites us and takes our burdens
May we all have the eyes and hearts of children that we can walk in the freedom of grace under the yolk Jesus.
Amen
Music Encouragement C.H. Masion Memorial Choir - Come Unto Me
1 comment:
Once again, you leave me encouraged. So often I forget to leave it all to God and that He knows best.
I would like to share a precious poem that goes so well with todays blog:
'As children bring their broken toys with tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God,
because He was my friend.
But then, instead of leaving Him in peace, to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help, with ways that were my own.
At last, I snatched them back and cried, "How could You be soo slow?"
"My child," He said, "What could I do? You never did let go."
God bless you JG,
Paula
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