Come All You Weary pt. 2
Our group went through the passage tonight as planned, it went well and it felt like it was a timely message for all of us.
Thinking about this passage has been expecially good for me, it seems like the message has landed in my life at just the right time. I don’t often share this, but for the past couple years (since I started seminary) I have been going through one of the roughest spiritual patches of my life. Everything has seemed dry. Not being able to connect with God has been an interesting experience, and one that has probably harmed my pattern of relating to others. It’s fairly easy to try to get your identity somewhere else instead of Jesus when that sort of thing is going on.
It’s a strange thing to have so much knowledge and ideas and even moments of inspiration, but to feel your spiritual life be so dry. But as I was prepping this week and reflecting on this text and as I was reflecting on an unexpected turn of events in my life that I’m not sure how to process, I realized that somehow when I prayed, all of the sudden, I am sensing God’s presence - an answer to the very passage I was prepping to talk about.
I’m pretty sure I’m on a high moment of my spiritual life right now and as such, I’ll come down eventually, but while it lasts, I hope that it helps me to build some much needed habits in my life - to get back in a habit of reading my Bible and praying every day and not just when things go wrong.
All of this in my mind at least is connected to this passage that we talked about tonight, Matthew 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.
God, thank you that at a moment when I should feel totally burdened down, you have made this idea real to me. I truly believe right now - maybe for the first time in years - that your yoke is easy and your burden is light.
