Wednesday 18 July 2012

What is it that is tiring you and stressing you out? Will you lay it down at the feet of Jesus? Isaiah 26,7-9.12.16-19; Mt 11,28-30


If you wish to read the text click here: Isaiah 26,7-9.12.16-19; Mt 11,28-30

Jesus invites all those who are burdened to come to him for rest. The burden in this context seems to be that of the law and its obligations. When Jesus invites the burdened to take his yoke, which is easy, he is not inviting them to a life of ease, but to a deliverance from any kind of artificiality or the blind following of rules and regulations. The disciple must learn from Jesus who is in Matthew “the great teacher”. The rest that Jesus offers is the rest of salvation.
We can get so caught up today with wanting to have more that we might lose sight of the meaning of life itself. The desire to acquire more and more and be regarded as successful based on what we possess sometimes leads to missing out on so much that life has to offer.

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