The following was written June 10, 2021- I had no clue how much I'd need to read it today. Praise God for keeping me in His love always. I cry until I can barely breathe, only to have spent tears dry- His solace is there as I'm reminded, this life is temporary to eternity.
*(June 10, 2021)
She walked through life seeking a relationship with Christ, the perfect, loving, savior- Christ. She heard his beckoning entreaty to come to Him - to Him, as she labored through life's many trials and extreme tribulations.
As the weight of her world rested upon her heavily, she was told to come to Him for rest. Rest offered to her by her Savior. Rest from all the extreme burdens weighing her down until the exhaustion threatened her very existence.
Rest. But then her Savior said, to take His yoke. A yoke, a weight, a burden upon a beast, a yoke, a bondage of heaviness pressing down upon her. Her Savior wanted her to take His yoke. Her Savior wanted her to burden herself yet further just after He offered her rest from being heavy ladened, spent through laboring and He wanted to place upon her another yoke, His yoke.
Take it, He told her. Take this new weight upon you. Take my weight upon you. Take this shared weight - the yoke was meant for two - it was still His as He offered to let her take it with Him. Take my yoke on you, He told her, take it and learn of me, He said. He wanted her to learn of Him by taking His yoke with Him. The rest He offered was His rest. Shared burden. Knowledge of a true sharing of all the labor and heavy laden life bits that encumbered her. Shared by the knowledge of Him and ALL He represents. No false advertising. A clear truth that revealed the war and what it would mean to be on the side of the Savior.
Knowledge that every single aching heart moment she experienced was shared with her Savior. Knowledge that all the heart ache, the worst of the worst she was going through, had already gone through, and had yet to face was all temporary, all momentary. Knowledge that learning of her Savior meant learning of heaven, learning of heaven's true everlasting treasure, and knowledge of heaven being where all her treasures must truly reside.
So much learning, relearning, studying, ever studying of Him. Knowing Him. Learning to keep the knowledge of Him. Learning of Him as we learn the greatest of life's lessons, those we never forget. Learning of Him because He must be our breath, breathing Him. Learning of Him because He must be our heart beating, living Him.
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(Excerpt)
'The School of Christ. The church of Christ is not composed of perfect men, but of those who are seeking perfection. He is the perfect One, and he sends out the invitation: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me." Mat. 11:28, 29. Having called all to come to him, he says, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." John 6:37. As one has said, "God reaches for the hand of faith in man to direct it to lay fast hold upon the divinity of Christ, that man may attain to perfection of character."
The faith may be very weak, but God does not reject him on that account. Paul thanked God that the faith of the Thessalonian brethren grew exceedingly (2 Thess. 1:3), which shows that they did not have perfect faith at the first. It is true that God is so good that every person ought to trust him fully; but just because he is so good, he is very patient and forbearing with those who are not well acquainted with him, and he does not turn away from them because they are doubtful. It is this very goodness and forbearance of God that develops perfect faith.'
(Excerpt)
Articles on Romans by E. J. Waggoner Chapter 14
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