Do you ever feel like the whole world is weighing on your shoulders? Like every minute of every day you must keep working, planning, organising and managing in order for the world around you to keep turning. That every one of your children's actions and reactions is in some way because you are not enough. that you don't spend enough time with them, or you spend too much time with them. You should do better, be better, and give more even when you feel like you have already given more than you had to start with and you have nothing left. Jesus calls you to come unto him.
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest". He calls you as your cares and responsibilities weigh you down. He calls you in your worries and despair. He calls you when you are in the darkest places in your mind and feel as though you will never be enough. "Come unto me" He calls you into his love and leaves you with a promise. A promise that you will find rest for your soul. He calls you when it all feels too hard, and you feel you have no strength to come unto Him. He calls you when you feel like if one more straw is placed onto your back it will break and he tells you to take his yoke upon you.
"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
We do not have to carry the whole weight of the world on our shoulders. We don't have to spend every minute of every day stressing and working ourselves into the ground because His burden is light.
I wish to leave you with this portion from Matthew 6, to help you and encourage you to lay down your burdens at Jesus' feet. To take His yoke upon you that the weight of the world may be lifted from your shoulders and that you may find rest.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
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