Take
the work I give you, and learn the way I will show you to do that work. Like
me, you will find the right way that has been prepared just for you if you
accept the timeless wisdom of God’s way to good life. In that life you will
find real rest. (Matthew 11:29)
Can you really submit to Jesus as He asks?
Not only by exception – in the moment where you are motivated to do some act of
mercy, or choose a moral option. Jesus is talking about an ongoing, daily
relationship that will go to the office with you. He will show you what to do,
and how to do it all day at work, as you lead your people. He will set the
priorities of your life down to the details. Are you ready for that?
With this offer, Jesus may have been
thinking of God’s word to Israel through Jeremiah (6:16), where the prophet
challenged the Israelites to choose one of the two paths at the crossroads of
life, God’s way or not God’s way. He promised that, in God’s good way, they
would find real rest for their souls.
Always, in every situation, decision, plan,
and attitude of life, there are the same two choices. Like Jesus, choose God’s
good way, and find His rest and peace.
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