July 7: Weariness You especially feel it in the evening after an exhausting day at the office, as you wend your way home in a rumpled suit, lugging an overloaded briefcase. Perhaps you find yourself wondering if anyone else understands – or cares about your fatigue, as you reflect back over a day fraught with unresolved problems, unrelenting pressures, and incomplete projects. One Person who cares is Jesus. He also understands because He has been there: After a demanding stretch of meeting peoples needs, He fell asleep in a storm-tossed fishing vessel. (Matthew 8:23-27) After butting up again and again against obdurate slow-to-believe fellow-travelers, He expressed a sense of wearing angst: O unbelieving and perverse generation… how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? (Matthew 17:17) After an exhausting journey under the midday sun, He sat down at a well to rest. (John 4:6) And that is why He and your Heavenly Father are able to say to you: 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. (Matthew 11:28-30) Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:10) Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isaiah 40:31) I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint. (Jeremiah 31:25) Amidst unrelenting demands, Jesus wisely knew when it was time to take a break: Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to (the twelve disciples), Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. (Mark 6:31) Do you? —Facts of the Matter
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:58:09 +0000
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