MATTHEW 11:28-30 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.”
I was reading 'My utmost for His highest' this morning and was reminded of this verse. I was struck by the first part 'come to me' and comforted by the last 'for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light'.
Have you felt the Lord's burden is light in your life struggles and daily tasks? I know I had had trouble with this verse in times of struggle and difficulty in my life. It doesn't feel light or my burden easy????? It feels difficult, confusing, HEAVY.
But then I was reminded of the first part 'come to me'. We can come to God with our heavy and difficult burdens. He wants to make them light. But the key is we have to 'come to him'. He will never force us to give Him our burdens. He will never reach down from heaven and take our burdens from us. We need to come to Him with our lives and place it at His feet. We need to say 'Not my will Lord (Lord: a man of high rank, a king, a man of renowned power and authority...) but yours' (Luke 22:42) We need to make the choice. Are we going to carry our burdens and be constantly confused, pressured, angry, scared, hostile, burdened...or are we going to give our lives over to the Lord who wants to make our burdens light?
What a gift we have been given. We don't need to suffer with our heavy yoke of this life. We have a worthy Lord who knows how to make our burdens light and He wants to do that for us. If we would only sacrifice our pride and admit what we already know, that we can not handle these burdens of life on our own and turn our lives over to a glorious Lord who made us. He will make your burdens light. He make not make everything in your life perfect, but He will lead you down the path He has made for you and He will give you peace and comfort in your times of need.
Lets get on our knees and pray Gods will for our lives today and trust Him with our burdens and except His gift of an easy yoke.
Blessings
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Goodness of God
Exodus 33:19
And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Psalm 23:6
Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
God is good. He is. I know it to the bottom of my soul. I don't always see His goodness. I am blinded to it by the circumstances of this life. I see so many people struggling today. So many of us are struck by tragedy and trials it is hard to see the goodness in God. We might even have begun to wonder if God really is good?
The thing I have learned in my own trials is that when we decide to keep our focus on the Lord it becomes easier to see His goodness. When we begin to focus on our circumstance or trial it is harder to find His goodness.
God is good. No matter what we think. God is good in His nature. He does not need us to believe that He is good for Him to be good. He is good despite what we believe. So we can trust God in His goodness and place our lives in His hands, or we can go our own way worrying about the details of our lives we can not control.
I did not say it is easy. Struggles will come. We don't get to live life's full of all happy days. But, if we begin to put our happiness in the goodness of God and allow his good and perfect plan into our lifes we just might begin to see our circumstances differently. We might begin seeing the goodness of God.
Blessings
And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Psalm 23:6
Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
God is good. He is. I know it to the bottom of my soul. I don't always see His goodness. I am blinded to it by the circumstances of this life. I see so many people struggling today. So many of us are struck by tragedy and trials it is hard to see the goodness in God. We might even have begun to wonder if God really is good?
The thing I have learned in my own trials is that when we decide to keep our focus on the Lord it becomes easier to see His goodness. When we begin to focus on our circumstance or trial it is harder to find His goodness.
God is good. No matter what we think. God is good in His nature. He does not need us to believe that He is good for Him to be good. He is good despite what we believe. So we can trust God in His goodness and place our lives in His hands, or we can go our own way worrying about the details of our lives we can not control.
I did not say it is easy. Struggles will come. We don't get to live life's full of all happy days. But, if we begin to put our happiness in the goodness of God and allow his good and perfect plan into our lifes we just might begin to see our circumstances differently. We might begin seeing the goodness of God.
Blessings
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