Delaney Street Baptist Church issued the following announcement on Jul 13.
All too often, we carry around extra weight (and we are not talking about those extra pounds we can and do carry in weight/fat).
As we carry it, the burden tends to get/feel heavier and more restricting with every step, with every breath.
Our "extra weight" tends to be…
1. the weight of sin in our lives
2. excessive life demands (work, family, religion)
3. in some places and parts of the world more than others - oppression and persecution
4. weariness from trying to work and/or do good to try to please God (as if we could somehow earn His grace, mercy, favor).
But Jesus reminds us that He will give us rest.
He reminds us to take on His yoke, for His fits perfectly and His burden is light.
Far lighter than the yoke around us now.
Far lighter than the burdens we carry now.
Jesus frees us from these heavy burdens we carry.
He gives us rest found in His love, His healing, His grace, the hope and the peace we find in Him.
We will still struggle and labor (no one said a Christian life would be easy), but a relationship with Jesus changes everything.
No longer do we work and labor in vain.
The meaningless and the burdensome ultimately changes into spiritual productivity and purpose.
It becomes more and more about Him and His glory, and less and less about us and our burdens, worries, junk of life.
Today, take up your cross and follow Jesus.
Give Him your "extra weight" of life’s burdens.
Take on His yoke. And you will find rest.
Original source can be found here.
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