Come To Me And I Will Give You Rest

My Thoughts

In the light of today’s Gospel, how do we see God?  How do we live and feel about God in our hearts? What feelings uncover his presence in our lives?

Jesus offers us his understanding when we feel weary and want to rest: “Come to me, all you who work hard and who carry heavy burdens and I will refresh you” (Mt 11:28).

Maybe we have fought for perfection while, deep inside, the only thing we wanted was to feel loved…………..In Jesus’ words we find a response to our crisis of meaning.

Our ego plays some dirty tricks on us by preventing us from being as good as we would like to. At times we may not see the light. St. Juliana of Norwich, English mystic of the fourteenth century, had a revelation, heard Jesus’ message, and wrote: “All will go well, everything will go well”.

Jesus’ proposal —”Take my yoke upon you and learn from me…”(Mt 11:29)— implies following his benevolent style of life (to wish good to everybody) and his heart’s humility (virtue referring to keep our feet on the ground for only the divine grace can make us ascend).  Our problem is we choose other yokes.  Yokes of materialism, Selfishness, Pride, artificial intelligence, secularism and think they can provide the answers to life.   To be a disciple demands our accepting Jesus’ yoke, while remembering his yoke is “good and his burden is light”.

I do not know, however, whether we are convinced this is really so. To live as a Christian in our present context is not such an easy thing, for we have to opt for values that go upstream. Not to get carried away by money, prestige or power demands a great effort. If we want to achieve it by ourselves, it may become an impossible task. But with Jesus everything is possible and good.  My advice today is to stop yoking around.  Choose Jesus’ yoke its the only one that fits.

Be Blessed