A Heavy Load

By Paula Williamson, guest writer

One only has to turn on the news or scroll through social media to feel the weight of the world on our shoulders, depending on the source of information. It’s easy to look around at what is wrong and become overwhelmed. What if we didn’t? What if we changed our news source to look for what good is happening in our world? What if we searched our days for the good? How might that change us and our outlook on life? What if we played the glad game in the old movie, "Pollyanna?" Her father taught her to look for things that made her glad when she was discouraged.

It Is Written

MATTHEW 11:28 -30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you

rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Relief

God created the world and all the people in it for a relationship with Him. We can walk arm in arm, knowing He is with us, leading and guiding us, and giving us strength. This scripture promises that we can come to Him when we are weary and burdened, and that in Him we will find rest. I don’t know about you, but I am walking under His yoke and in the shade of His rest today.

Prayer

Lord, thank You for the promise that Your yoke is easy. Thank You that we do not have to carry our burdens alone. Thank You that when we run to You, You bear and share our burdens, making them manageable. I rest in You today.

Takeaway

He is our place of rest.