Daily Devotional by Max Lucado, Sep 4th

Daily Devotional by Max Lucado

"the One who came still comes and the One who spoke still speaks"

 

September 4

"Come to Me"

 

"Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest."

Matthew 11:28 (NCV)

 

Come to me…. The invitation is to come to him.  Why him?

 

He offers the invitation as a penniless rabbi in an oppressed nation.  He has no political office, no connections with authorities in Rome.  He hasn't written a best-seller or earned a diploma.

 

Yet, he dares to look into the leathery faces of farmers and tired faces of housewives and offer rest.  He looks into the disillusioned eyes of a preacher or two from Jerusalem.  He gazes into the cynical stare of a banker and the hungry eyes of bartender and makes this paradoxical promise:  "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" (Matt. 11:29).

 

The people came.  They came out of the cul-de-sacs and office complexes of their day.  They brought him the burdens of their existence, and he gave them not religion, not doctrine, not systems, but rest.

 

 

From: Six Hours One Friday

Copyright (W Publishing Group, 2003)
Max Lucado

 

 
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