... a weekly letter of encouragement.
22 April, 1998 - Singapore
Good Morning!
WEARINESS
You especially feel it in the evening
after an exhausting day at the office, as you wend your way home
in a rumpled suit, lugging an overloaded briefcase. Perhaps you
find yourself wondering if anyone else understands - or cares
about your fatigue, as you reflect back over a day fraught with
unresolved problems, unrelenting pressures, and incomplete projects.
One Person who cares is Jesus. He also understands because He has been there:
- After a demanding stretch of meeting people's needs, He fell asleep in a storm-tossed fishing vessel. (Matthew 8:23-27)
- After butting up again and again against obdurate slow-to-believe fellow-travelers, He expressed a sense of wearing angst,
"O unbelieving and perverse
generation...haw long shall 1 stay with you? How long shall I
put up with you ?... "
(Matthew 17:17)
- After an exhausting journey under the mid-day sun, He sat down at a well to rest. (John 4:6)
And that is why He and your Heavenly
Father are able to say to you,
"Come to Me all you who
are weary and burdened and 1 will
give you rest. 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. For My yoke is easy and My burden is
light."
(Matthew 11:28-30)
"...Do not fear, for I
am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I
will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you
with my righteous right hand."
(Isaiah 41:10)
"Those who hope in
the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like
eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not
be faint""...
(Isaiah 40:31)
"I will refresh the
weary and satisfy the faint".
(Jeremiah 31:25)
AMIDST unrelenting demands,
Jesus wisely knew when it was time to take a break:
"Then, because so many
people were coming and going that they did not even
have a chance to eat, he said to (the twelve disciples), 'Come
with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."'
(Mark 6: 31 )
Do you?
My prayer is that you are having a great week!
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