Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Peace”
Our Bible verse for today: “Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30
Our thought for today: “When Jesus says “Come to Me”, we need to actually “go to Him”.
In her book “The God of All Comfort” Hannah Whitall Smith asks, “Why, I asked myself, should the children of God lead such utterly uncomfortable religious lives when He has led us to believe that His yoke would be easy and His burden light?”
She goes on, “There is a feeling abroad that Christ has offered in His Gospel more than He has to give. People think that they have not exactly realized what was predicted as the portion of the children of God. But why is this so? Has the kingdom of God been over-advertised, or is it only that it has been under-believed; has the Lord Jesus Christ been overestimated, or has He only been under-trusted?”
Ok, I’m thinking the problem is us and not Him. I’m thinking that the reason we don’t have the peace we yearn for is not because God has promised more than He can deliver, it’s because we’re lazy in the practice of our spiritual disciplines, prone to making excuses, and sleeping when we should be praying.
When Jesus said “Come to Me” the implication is that we will actually have to get off of our backsides and go to Him. Instead of sleeping late we must get out of bed and go to the time of Bible reading and prayer. Instead of sitting around the house on Sunday reading the paper and getting ready for the early football game, we need to actually go to church. Instead of just pushing on through our frustrating and stressful work day we need to stop what we’re doing, go someplace quiet, and pray about it.
The problem with most of us is that when Jesus says “Come to Me”, we don’t. If we did, we’d have a lot more peace. When Jesus says “Come to Me”, we need to actually “go to Him”.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 