Come Unto Me

Whether it's in the circumstances we are dealing with currently or whether it's the constant busyness of life, this verse is appropriate for all! When we are constantly laboring and constantly busy we get weary. Galatians 6:9 says, "And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." Heavy- laden means that we are burdened down. We are loaded down/bent down with all our cares and responsibilities. Not too long ago I was hearing and even, to my shame, participating in the complaining about how busy we are and the overlapping of responsibilities in my/our lives.

Now, quite often, I hear the opposite!

Now I hear a murmuring and complaining of all different kinds! We are no different than the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness! There are some fighting for all they are worth to keep the status quo and what they deem the normal of our lives. The upending of schedules makes them people insecure, so we do everything we humanly can not to ever feel that feeling! What we fail to see is that God, through the circumstances, is revealing the pride of self-preservation and self-sufficiency. "I have to keep things as normal as possible!" Essentially saying, "I have to keep everything under my control! I don't want to feel out of control!" But God wants us totally dependent on Him, no matter what is thrown in our path. God wants us to allow HIM to be in control of everything!

Yes!

Every. Little. Thing! I think of the movie 'Bug's Life' when the leaf fell in the path of the lined and marching ants, they cried out in fear and frustration. They couldn't see the plan ahead or figure out a way past the leaf. All they could see was the "obstacle". We can be like that too! Jesus said,

"Come unto Me"

If we want to be able to rest, we must

come and kneel, like Mary with her alabaster box, and pour out on Jesus all we hold on to so tightly.

Pour out our burdens

Pour out our schedules

Pour out our “rights”

Pour out our plans and desires

Pour out our worries/fears/anxieties

Pour out our EVERYTHING!

Hold nothing back!

Then maybe it can be said of us, like it was of Mary, that we “have done what we could”.

Sometimes God will upend our agendas, so HE can overwhelm our lives!