Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 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. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Reflection:
Sabbath presents many dimensions to us. On the one hand, it is a reflective remembrance of all that God has done in the past to bring us into His salvation story. On the other hand, it is a future hope of the everlasting and perfect rest that we will one day share with our almighty Father God. But it is also a powerful present-day reality that we can experience through faith in Jesus Christ. These words are the very words of our Lord Jesus who invites us to come and lay down all of our weariness and burdens. These words are His promise that we will find real rest for our souls. How we receive this rest is to come to Him and take His yoke upon us. His yoke is easy and His burden is light, and we are to learn from Him. We can do this because He Himself is our real rest.
Response:
Believing in His gentle and humble heart, let’s come before Him with one specific burden that has been in your heart. With faith and trust, let’s offer up this burden to Him and trust that He will give us the kind of true rest that our souls really need.
