LIGHT BURDEN OF JESUS, 1
"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good – not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne." Matt 11:28-30 AMP
Learning is an integral part of education, stimulated through enlightenments and orientations. Intricately, learning in the household of faith, is strictly by observation. Lord Jesus said in Matt 28:20 "Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you..." It's a simple logic, if people coming to Him through us are to learn by observation, it then means, the way to learn of Jesus for everyone is observation only. The Lord's aim of instituting this teaching by observation method I supposed, was to eliminate human errors in information dissemination, transmission or some communication breakdowns which was the bane of human traditions. Till today, traditions passed down us stand against the ultimate culture of God. Selah
We waste millions building monumental structures, trying to teach new believers, converts in the faith because some of us presumed the Lord was saying, "Sit them down and lecture them, teaching everything I taught you." Unfortunately, they missed it. Learning for the Lord here, to us in faith, pertaining to the things of God is strictly by observing - look and see! Look, be formed! Look till you become! Observing! These gigantic edifices are good and maybe for some other uses, definitely not for teaching purposes. For God's mighty effort is to eliminate as much as possible, human involvement, the arm of flesh in the deliverance of His people, deficiencies that hinder effective communication of deeds.
In the beginning when God began to create, Lucifer the morning Star, son of Dawn was also a "happy" contributor to development and formation of the universe. He suggested darkness and bad times. Can you imagine?? Reason: There was nothing the devil contributed that was not either for or after himself, an embodiment of corruption. Whereas to us, talking and teaching new believers may seem faster and quicker, yet it is the most corrupting thing that ever existed. Heaven tolerated Lucifer till it could no longer bear his corrupt practices - sowing his tares among the wheats of God, with him his newly reformed dragons were all cast out of heaven.
Learn of Me....excuse me please, where do you learn? How did you know God? From whom did you know about God? Sorry to say bro, except your learning is directly from Jesus living within your heart, you copied wrong. If you must copy, copy right. The Lord God was astonished at Adams' new learning, teaching of the Nicolatians copied from Serpent, so He asked Adam and his wife, "WHO TOLD YOU ARE NAKED?" Gen 3:11 This is one pertinent question begging for answer at every junction of learning you acquire - who told you? God's concern isn't whether it is true or not, but how did you get the information??
Friend, what's the Source of your teaching? Who told you that you're naked? How did you come to this understanding? Who enlightened you? Was it God, His Spirit or His Word? Unless it is the Lord teaching, it is not safe for consumption. O yes, for this publication also. It must be the Lord!
Now, light is the burden of Jesus. He came to make us lights! So the Lord said, "You are the light of the world", Matt 5:14-16. See, all that Jesus appeared in flesh for is to make us light, light-bearers, people who procreate lights. He says again, "My burden is Light." What's a burden? Something that overwhelms and takes the most part of you. It soaks, consumes, drives, taking the totality of you. Even when you try to hide it in your feelings and looks, it kinda shows all the more! It just fills, controls you and often, bids you to pray the Father asking for something.
Jesus' burden was that we'd be lights, all God's children shinning through the gloomy thick darkness of this passing world of vanities, where nothing is ever real. Things could be faked, guised, veiled or covered. The world has no light. Even when God created the heaven and earth at the beginning, just suddenly there was darkness everywhere until God said, "Let There Be Light!" Oh, the world hates light because of its revealing power, so incomprehensible showing the hidden confounding things - closed secrets. In this world of lucidity, opaqueness and translucence, Jesus wants us transparent that other people may see through us.
The Lord demonstrated this burden so paramount in His heart at His transfiguration beside the mountain of falling and rising, Mark 9:2-8. Jesus Christ became "light" and shone bright, His clothes and body were lit - all turned light! James and John with Peter His disciples exclaimed, "Master, it's good that we dwell here...so beautiful, so wonderful!" By this demonstration, the Lord showed that our bodies are built for lights, that men may see God hiding in us and give Him glory. The blood running in our veins is its electrolyte.
Listen to me friend, I adjourn you by the mercies of God, give your body to Jesus. Come to Him, come drop your old life at His feet, that old way of thinking, those useless indulgences - ways of doing something please God, a life of bribery. Come receive rest from all troubles and restlessness. Then accept His own life, Jesus' life. O yes, He wants to replicate Himself in you. He wants to dwell in your mortal body. Jesus wants to rejuvenate, speaking life to your body, making it produce light, so that all your life you'll only give birth to lights. Come, come, come to Him today and the Lord be with you. Amen
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