LEARNING DAILY

 

Matthew 11:28-29, “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.”  Jesus

 

There have been days that I just shake my head with what is going on around me and because of what I see going on in the world.  None of us are immune to the troubles of life and the sinful world we live in.  The Bible tells us to not be anxious and not to worry.  The world tells us lies which causes us to be uncomfortable about our lives.  The leadership in this country is very confusing in what it says about everything.  They cannot even get their stories to match.  I can’t help but shake my head and wonder what has happened to honesty and truth.  Do you feel like you are laboring and/or heavy laden?

 

Jesus offers us rest from the burdens we all carry or have carried.  I do want to be clear (Oh, yes, that sounds like the politicians I have watched on the news.), He is not offering to remove every problem and burden we face.  Too many times preachers and evangelists have not made this point clear.  They say, “Give your life to Jesus and he will take every burden, every trial, every disease away from you.”  So, you do and when these things still are there, what happens?  Here is what Jesus is telling you and me.  When we come to Him and obey His Word – when we walk on the narrow way – He will refresh us.  Those burdens that are placed on you because of the troubles in the world, in your family, at your work place, all the tensions you face and the routine of life will be faced with His help and His grace.  His rest is not absence from these things; He is with us through them.

 

Those that heard Jesus say this understood that “taking the yoke of another meant coming under that person’s leadership and walking in that person’s footsteps.  When believers take Jesus’ yoke, they place themselves under His dominion.  Only then do His followers enjoy the day-to-day release from stress that God intended.” (DJSB)

 

What do you need to take to Jesus today?  Does all the things being said about Covid-19, vaccines, masks burden you?  What about the lies and deceit and the covering of our leader’s backside burden you?  Do you have worries about your family members, concerns at work, financial concerns?  Whatever the burdens you carry are, take them to the Lord Jesus and allow Him to see you through them.  Go ahead – try Him and see He is “gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

 

From now on DJSB will be used to note information or quotes from the David Jeremiah Study Bible and LSSB will refer to information and quotes from the Life in the Spirit Study Bible.