28 ¶Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
29 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.
30 For
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matt
11:28-30)
This is more of an incremental insight,
but it is precious to me anyway.
In the past, whenever I have read this,
I have wondered, “How does learning of the Savior’s meekness and lowliness help
us find rest?”
In Sunday School a few weeks ago we
discussed this block of verses and someone pointed out that if you yoke a
trained ox with an untrained one, it is possible for the untrained ox to
learned from the trained one.
I liked that a lot. If we are yoked to the Savior, we can
learn how He does things.
When the burden is heavy, He doesn’t
shirk or refuse or fight it. That
is how His meekness and lowliness is exhibited. Also, He didn’t refuse to carry
our burnden of sin when He worked out the Atonement.
Just knowing we can go to Him for help
lightens our load. I’ve found that
when I take time to remember Him, somehow my spirit is renewed and my soul
finds rest. I had a few days this
week when at the end of the day I just was exhausted
and wondered how I could go on.
But when I sat and took some time to think about Christ and remembered
and envisioned what He did for me, I felt
the Spirit renewing my strength.
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