Come All You Weary
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In order to get to this, there’s a few steps we take first.
First, we accept this:
My understanding isnt’ good enough
My understanding isnt’ good enough
At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.
Jesus says, he revealed the truth of this to little children, rather than the wise and the learned.
That informs our approach - we learn to come to the throne and the cross as children.
And jesus doesn’t say, ‘the fake learned and those who think they are wise’. He’s saying, wisdom and knowledge itself isn’t good enough to bring us to that point of seeing this truth revealed to us by the father.
Jesus is the one who REVEALS the truth to us
Jesus is the one who REVEALS the truth to us
we see it less as, ‘I have to make sure i’m fully confident in my knowledge, and that I have done all the homework’.
We see it more as, ‘I know Jesus has this gift of knowing Him available to me. So I want to come to Jesus and ask for it’.
Now to be clear, we can’t possibly believe that God will speak to us without us knowing and reading the word. We can’t ask God to tell us something without taking time in prayer to listen.
So under that assumption, here’s how we understand this:
“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.”
Jesus INVITES us to receive rest from Him
Jesus INVITES us to receive rest from Him
And this is the centering that Jesus calls us to. Because he starts this invite off with 3 powerful words - Come to me.
Rest starts first and foremost with this continual drawing close to Jesus. In every situation that tires us, in every situation that burdens us. Carrying that yoke that we’ve taken on, that burden that we’ve taken on, and coming to Jesus and saying, ‘hey, sorry, I picked up another one. Can you help me trade it out’ and taking His
And this doesn’t mean ‘stop caring about stuff that YOU care about’.
Jesus is a master of trading false yokes for true ones.
Jesus is a master of trading false yokes for true ones.
We have this habit of taking GOOD things and turning them into BAD things.
Jesus made you to be a person sensitive to the feelings of others? Congrats, you’re now constantly worried about making people upset. Jesus made you to be an influential leader? Now you’re manipulative and self-centered.
And that’s the enemies lies getting into our hearts. He takes what is good, and he twists it. Oh ya, that person there? I think they’re upset with you. Probably because you did something to take care of yourself rather than just ignoring yourself and doing everything everybody else wants (see, that’s a two for one there). And eventually, we take off that yoke, that job that Jesus made us for, and we put on another one.
And the same thing is true for burdens. we’re GREAT at taking a great burden and turning it into a bad one. We have a burden to make sure people understand what truth is? We can turn into one of those people that just randomly shares anything and everything that tickles our fancy online, not caring about due dilligence to make sure it’s true. We have a burden for kids in the foster system? We become judgmental of struggling parents or of the system, rather than becoming caring foster parents ourselves.
The trouble is , when we put ourselves on top, when we make OURSELVES the yokemasters and the burden givers - we just do a poor job. Because we’re not meant to be on that throne.
Jesus has a yolk and a burden for us
Jesus has a yolk and a burden for us
It’s funny that Jesus’ definition of rest is a yoke and a burden. But the things is, that’s exactly what He is offering. He has a plan for us, a purpose. He has things He wants us to do to serve in His kingdom.
But in serving Him and coming to Him - we find the greatest rest possible.
This is a commitment we’re making with the church across the board for volunteers - that we still have work to do, we’re still here to serve. But that our priority as a church is, first and foremost, to enable and encourage as best we can each person’s walk with God, and to lead from a point of strong reliance on God and an abundance.
Because the simple priority is this. When we put on Jesus’ yoke, and carry His burden - it should provide us rest.