Come to me all of you who are tired and heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Accept my teachings and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you will find rest for your lives. The teaching that I ask you to accept is easy; the load I give you to carry is light (Matthew 11:28-30)
God, I can always tell when I am carrying too much stuff; taking on too much! That feeling of being overwhelmed and overburdened, overworked, stressed and distressed starts to creep in. Some days I just want to run away from it all! I know exactly what David felt like when he said; “If only I had the wings of a dove I would fly away and be at rest”! Lord, I shouldn’t have to run away to feel at peace. I should not have to consider having an emotional, psychological or even spiritual breakdown in order to shake these heavy burdens of life and people. It’s a mixed bag, God; partly my fault and partly the fault of others and their expectations of me, and partly the stuff that just comes from living in this world. So I confess my sin of trying to be God—in my own life and to everyone else! I confess my sin of overloading and overburdening myself, needlessly. I confess my sin of self everything: self-reliance, self-determining, self-aggrandizement! You have not given us this life to take on everything. With as much power and authority and ability as You have created us with, You have also given us limitations expressly for the purpose of relying on You and not ourselves or others! I pray today for this gift of ease You promise; I want to trade my burden for Your yoke, my worry for Your peace, my limitation for Your power and ability. Then I will be at rest and I can handle everything that comes my way. show me today the things that are on my plate needlessly and help me remove all that does not need to be there, without guilt or shame. In Jesus’ name. Amen
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