Matt.11:28-30 – “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Until someone is truly born again his life is often filled with strife. Jesus addresses the tense heart of man in this passage of scripture. What is His answer? Really it is His answer for everything, “Come unto Me”. So what exactly causes a man’s heart to be filled with strife? For the religious man it could be the ‘never good enough’ syndrome. No matter how hard he tries to serve God he falls miserably short. What is the Lord’s answer, “Come unto Me”. What happens next is amazing, He accepts us in our weakness, forgives us for our sins, and then makes us more and more like Him. He carries the weight when we become yoke-fellows with Him. Then there is the one who is striving because of their sin. The answer is the same, “Come to Me”, the Lord says. I died for you and I want to take you to Myself and work something beautiful in your life. Here is how Adam Clarke describes this.
“For my yoke is easy. My Gospel imposes nothing that is difficult; on the contrary, it provides for the complete removal of all that which oppresses and renders man miserable, his sin”. The commandments of Christ are not grievous. Hear the whole: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbour as thyself. Can anything be more congenial to the nature of man than love?— such a love as is inspired by God, and in which the soul rests supremely satisfied and infinitely happy? Taste, and know, by experience, how good the Lord is, and how worthy his yoke is to be taken, borne, and loved. This most tender invitation of the compassionate Jesus is sufficient to inspire the most diffident soul with confidence.”
I used to think being a Christian and following Christ was anything but easy. What changed all that for me? It was simply meeting Him for myself, taking off my yoke of sin and self effort and allowing Christ to love me and change me into someone quite different. Come to Jesus, you will be surprised by His love for you and the easiness of yielding and walking with Christ.
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The Lord’s answer, to everything and situation “Come unto Me”
Simple yet we often stand just outside His “door” feebly knocking or desperately yelling for some help, yet don’t enter “that door” We can actually, quite rudely, expect Him to come out to us! That already happened… Are we nothing more than religious?