“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
I had to run into the store today for two things…only TWO things. My oldest wanted to get a shopping cart, but I said, “Nah, we only need two things.”
He gave a little sigh and said, “Ok Mom,” like he didn’t believe me. I knew what I was getting…TWO things. I didn’t know what his problem was.
In the first aisle the boys started looking, but I kept them on track. You see, I have to be careful because as soon as my human garbage disposals see food I’m in trouble. They are two growing boys that apparently are never full.
By the end of the first isle I realized I needed to pick up some berries too. Then, the oldest said he really needed spinach. How could I say no to healthy food? The youngest agreed we had to get bananas, and I got the tomatoes I went in for. Oh, wait…we needed some wheat buns. We made it down the first isle. This didn’t look good! How did this happen?
The next thing I knew, the boys were getting cereal and cranberry juice. What was that in my youngest son’s hand? Things were out of control…we had no shopping cart! Every person was juggling food, and I’m not sure if I could see faces at one point.
When all the groceries were on the conveyer belt, I was quite surprised. Who’s groceries were they? Surely not mine because I only needed two things, which I managed to only get one of the two items I needed. I guess we did need that cart.
Looking back, I don’t know how we were able to keep all the items in our arms from dropping. I’m pretty positive if there was one more thing piled on, we not only wouldn’t have been able to keep hold of it, the rest of the food would’ve gone tumbling too. We can only carry so much.
It got me thinking how we get that way in life too. We try to take care of too many things that we aren’t even called to take care of. We start juggling so many things that we’re about to lose something because we can only handle so much on our own. The only thing I know for sure is that we’re called to have a relationship with God. It’s simple. When we give it all to Jesus, I guarantee you He won’t be dropping anything.
Today, take a load off. Hand it all over so you can focus on learning and obeying. Listen to find out what you’re called to do instead of what you feel you have to do. The weight of all your commitments and projects will cause things to go tumbling before long. Get some rest!
It seems foolish to run around like we do with our arms full when all we have to do is unload our burden into a cart…or give it to Jesus.
