To Learn of Him
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”
The first thing we must do is to come to Him…then we must give our attention to the lessons He gives by His Word and His Spirit.
We must learn of Christ;…..for He is both the Teacher and the lesson…
…He is both our Guide and our Way.
Ephesians 4:21 “If so be that ye have heard Him, and have been taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus;”
This is what Jesus Christ teaches…..the truth….putting everything into right perspective.
John 1:17 “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
Moses gave God’s people the law He was given….showed it to them and made them to know what they were to do…
But by Christ, we are given grace and truth….
Christ shows us the truth, for us….and when we submit to it…..He gives us grace to do something about it.
And what is the truth for each of us?
Matthew 11:28 “….all ye that labor and are heavy laden….”
Jesus Christ says that we labor very hard, to “get”…….
……to be able to say….”I have”.
And it is weariness:
Ecclesiastes 10:15 “The labor of the foolish wearied every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go the the city.” (the city of God. Hebrews 11:9-10)
Before we come and learn of Christ…..we labor very hard to get satisfaction through many things…….even in religious things.
We work to be able to say…..”I did this….I have this…..I acquired this”.
The emphasis is on “I”.
But Jesus shows us, that this is weariness….for the moment we “get”….we look for more.
We burden ourselves with: ideas of what could have been,…..or might be.
We burden ourselves with: affections that will never be satisfied….that will eat us up…..grief, infatuation, the desire to protect, even those we can’t.
We burden ourselves with conversations to which there is no answer….
2 Timothy 2:23 “But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.”
But Jesus says to “Come to Him,…and He will give us rest from these burdens”…….by the truth,…..and then give us grace, to deal with them.
Christ has left us an example:
Matthew 11:29 “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart:….”
“Yoke” here is a coupling…a bar put on more than one, so they will submit together to the work.
Christ is offering us a place next to Him, in the Will of God.
Will we take it?
“For I am meek…”. Christ was completely yielded to His Father’s Will, He was pliable to everything the Father wanted.
Hebrews 5:8-9 “Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered:
And being made perfect (complete), He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him;”
As the Son of Man, He learned in all His circumstances to obey His Father’s Will, there.
He said, “I do always those things which please Him.” (John 8:29)
He completed every obedience, and by His obedience….became the perfect sacrifice to atone for sin.
(A meek person, sees himself as he is before God…not letting other’s opinions or his own ideas interfere with what God shows him.)
“And lowly in heart:…”. Lowly means humiliated. His Way though this world was one of constant humiliation…..willing humiliation.
Philippians 2:5-8 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
This is the yoke that we are to take up,….with Him. To be meek, and lowly…taking everything that the Lord leads us into,….and being obedient.
We are to learn to adjust ourselves to every condition which comes to us….with Him beside us.
Philippians 4:11, 13 “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
We are to adjust ourselves to an needy condition….to know how to be abased.
Christ did.
We are to learn to be full,….yet not be proud, or secure in what we have.
Christ did.
It is by Christ’s constant and renewing strength, that we learn….by experience…His enabling in all conditions.
Matthew 11:29-30 “……..And ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Again I ask, will we come to Christ and learn of Him?
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