"Come to me all who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy and my burden light." Matthew 11:28-30 We often feel burdened by life. Sometimes it is more than we think we can bear. More often than not, it is the demands of our self-obsessed egoes that place the heaviest weights on our souls. It is when we turn our gaze outward, when we leave the narrow confines of our egoes, in love and service of the other, that we begin to see that our souls are lightened. When we are focused only on ourselves, we see all things as heavier than they are. We take things and ourselves too seriously. We burden our own souls. It is when we forget ourselves and begin to humbly and gently serve the needs of others that we begin to know the lightness of laughter and happiness in our souls. Why? Because it is then that the Holy Spirit enters us and fills us, and strengthens us with grace. Christ will lift our selfish and false burdens away from us. We will see them for what they really are and we will leave them behind. It is then that we will be able to take up his yoke and find the rest that our souls desire. We will experience that strange and holy paradox that Jesus so clearly expresses here in Matthew’s Gospel, “For my yoke is easy and my burden light.”
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:17:59 +0000
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