Carried

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. TakeMy yoke on you and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy to bear, and My load is not hard to carry.  Matthew 11:28-30 NET

How bewildering to learn that Christ does not get flustered and frustrated when we come to Him for fresh forgiveness, for renewed pardon, with distress and need and emptiness. That’s the whole point. The need for salvation, rescue of humanity.  It’s what He came to heal. He went down into the horror of death and plunged out through the other side in order to provide a limitless supply of mercy and grace to His people.  Hallelujah!

When we run to Christ for mercy, love and help in our anguish, confusion and sinfulness, we are going with the flow of His own deepest wishes, not against them. 

We tend to think that when we approach Jesus for help in our need and mercy amid our sins, we somehow detract from Him, lessen Him, impoverish Him. Yet as truly man, Christ’s heart is not drained by our coming to Him; His heart is filled up all the more by our coming to Him.

As truly God, Christ cannot become any more full; He shares in the trinity, immortal, eternal, with unchangeable fullness. 

To put it the other way around: when we hold back, subdued in the shadow, fearful and failing, we miss out not only on our own increased comfort but on Christ’s increased comfort. He lives for this. This is what He loves to do. His joy and ours rise and fall together.  Let Jesus care for you my friend.