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Matthew 8:1-17
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Matthew 8:18-27
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The Judgement Day
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Finding Rest From Your Burdans
Matthew 11:25–30
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Vaughn Shoemaker was an award-winning cartoonist for a Chicago newspaper for many years. I remember one cartoon he drew of a mighty rushing waterfall. Over a waterfall extended a large branch of a tree, and in the branch was a nest with a mother bird sitting over her newly hatche … More
Weariness is an internal exhaustion that comes from trying to achieve God’s standard by our own efforts. Heavy-laden suggests the external burdens caused by the efforts of works of righteousness. In this command Jesus contrasts the heavy burdens that we bring to Him at salvation with the light burdens that we carry with Him in service. The burdens are light because we do not carry them in our own strength but by the power of God’s grace, even as Paul testified: “I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (I Corinthians 15:10).
Application
When I experience a time when my burdens are just too much for me to bear I need to pray and ask the Lord to take them. After I have prayed it is so easy to pick up my burdens again and forget that I have layed them at His feed. This is not the way He is telling me to do in this passage in order to have the “rest” he is promising.
Matthew 11:25-30 (English Standard Version)
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all 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. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
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