Matthew 11:28-30
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest…”
How beautiful is the invitation of Jesus today for us to rest in Him! It is so easy for us in our fast-paced and active culture to disregard the value in silent prayer. And even for us Christians who do pray we sometimes ask ourselves, "why pray when I could helping the poor and doing great works of charity for God?" But all of us have a craving for balance in our lives. The big vacuum that sucks all of our enjoyment and peace out of living is the stress and tension we experience in our lives. So a big part of this balance we crave for is to be able to rest from all of this tension - to "de stress". So Christ offers us His rest in response.
He welcomes all of us to rest in Him as His "yoke is easy" and His "burden is light". For all of us, this invitation is one of being comfortable with the loving presence of Jesus in prayer; to place ourselves as the one who is in need, who needs love and who needs rest. So, in prayer today, we should be encouraged by this invitation to offer in prayer all the things that create stress and tension in our lives. Let us humbly offer Jesus our thoughts and reactions about these things and offer Him our heart, as fragile or as strong as it may be. And hopefully we may find rest for our souls!
