Come To Me!
"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."
Matthew 11: 28-29
When the prophet Jeremiah warned
Judah and
Jerusalem that God was about to submit them
to their “yoke” of Babylon, he actually wore the
wooden yoke around his own neck
to illustrate
his words (Jeremiah 28:10-13) to symbolize
submission and oppression.
Jesus pictured the religious oppression of
the
Jews as “heavy burdens, hard to bear, laid on
men’s shoulders” like a yoke laid on the
shoulders of oxen (Matthew 23:4).
God’s commandments “are not burdensome”
(1 John 5:3), but the religious
leaders made
them a burden by adding their own traditions
to them (Mark 7:13).
Jesus invites people to come to Him and
take His yoke upon them and learn the
ways of God to “find rest for their
souls,”
for His yoke—His way—is easy and light
(Matthew 11:29-30).
The key to taking Jesus’ yoke is
“come to Me.” Rest is not in religious
requirements but in a relationship
with Jesus.
"Faith is reason
at rest in God."
Charles Spurgeon