Come To Me All You Who Are Weary And Burdened, And I Will Give You Rest
Life In Christ Isn't Always Easy
MATHEW 11:28-30
“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
”Matthew 11:28-30 NKJV
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A yoke is a heavy wooden harness that fits over the shoulders of an ox or oxen and is attached to the heavy equipment the oxen is to pull.
People carry heavy burdens too, including believers.
The burdens of sin, and excessive demands of religious leaders (23:4; ACTS 15:10), oppression and persecution or weariness in their search for God.
Jesus frees us from these burdens.
The rest that Christ promises is love, healing, and peace with God, not to put an end to all labour.
A relationship with Christ transforms meaningless weary toil into spiritual productivity and purpose that shall manifests into good lasting fruits.
Jesus yoke emphasis the challenges, work, and difficulties of partnering with Christ Jesus in life.
Responsibilities can weigh us down, even the effort of staying true to God. But the yoke Jesus puts on our shoulders remains light and easy compared to the crushing alternative.
Jesus doesn't offer us an easy life; the yoke is still an oxen's tool for working hard.
Therefore, we should work hard in everything we do as if working for the Lord (COLOSSIANS 3:23), but it is a shared yoke, the weight falling on the shoulders of Christ which are far bigger than ours.
As a child of God, you are participating in life's responsibilities with a great partner; therefore your frown should be turned into smile, the gripe should be turned into song, and your life should be filled with continuous joy which is your strength (NEHEMIAH 8:10) and lasting peace; that is God's peace that exceeds anything we can understand and guards our hearts and minds through Christ (PHILIPPIANS 4:7).
Whether you are operating in ministry or your personal life, we are to walk by the leading and power of the Holy Spirit.
To operate from the flesh will make any project hard work and in time will drag one into sin and failure.
My brethren we cannot do this in our own strength!
We need to submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
When we walk in the flesh we go our own direction according to what appeals to us rather than God’s way. We then find ourselves claiming unwarranted recognition and become full of selfless ambitions.
Rather than using Scripture to support God’s way, we find ourselves using it to manipulate others and justify our ungodly direction.
My beloved, Jonah found himself in the belly of a giant fish because he went the wrong direction.
Don’t be like Jonah, he still after his time in the fish, was spat out and then sent to the place where God originally Instructed him to go and do what God instructed him to do (JONAH 1-3).
Many situations, trials, and challenges, can tempt us to walk in the flesh, including ministers of God who often knowingly or unknowingly find themselves manipulating others with Scripture and prophecy to bring about their own ideals and selfish ambitions.
Don’t be sucked in by the devil’s plans to take you off track and separate you from God.
He is very happy to take control of your time, ministry, career, or marriage, and he will even put you on a pedestal if it suits him.
He will load you down with demanding people to stop you doing that which pleases God.
Therefore, let your yes be yes and your no be no.
Of course, we must help and give to others, whether time or money, but only by the leading of the Holy Spirit.
We believers are not to be man pleasers, but God pleasers.
The devil will have you give away your provisions and time and weigh you down with the responsibilities of others.
The devil is there to steal, and to kill, and to destroy your ministry, your career, your marriage, and to cause you as much suffering as he possibly can inflict, and ultimately to separate you from God for all eternity.
But Jesus came to give you life, and that you may It more abundantly (JOHN 10:10).
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
James 4:7 NKJV
My beloved to walk in the flesh will be hard work for all and shall produce nothing good that’s lasting.
There are no short cuts; Jesus way is the only way (JOHN 14:6).
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Galatians 5:16-26 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
