Text: Matthew 11:28-30
We live in a world filled with unrest. Many of us are weary and heavy-laden. Jesus wants us to come to Him and let Him take our heavy load and replace it with His light load. In Matthew 11:28-30 we find three steps to finding rest for our weary soul. 1) We must come to Him. We must trust Him to lighten our load. 2) We must take His yoke upon us. We must humble ourselves before Him and receive His yoke. When we do, we come to realize that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. 3) We must learn from Him because He is gentle and lowly. We do not have a harsh taskmaster for a teacher. He treats us with kindness, meekness, and humility and we find that He is very approachable. We will want to learn from Him because He loves us infinitely. Jesus wants to give us rest, but we must turn from our selfish and sinful ways and come to Him, humble ourselves before Him, receive His yoke, and learn from Him because He is gentle and lowly, filled with grace and love toward all who will come.