Are you tired? Are the worries of life slowing you down? Is there a heavy weight upon your shoulders? Then today’s Gospel reading from Matthew should be of interest to you:
“Come to me, all you who are weary and find life burdensome, and I will refresh you.”
Often times, if not most of the time, I think that we bring this burden on ourselves. We tend to carry a lot of baggage with us. The problem is that we tend to make everything about us. All of the “things” that we have going on in our lives, it all revolve around us. For example, I have to do “this”, or I need to solve “this”, or I have to fix “this”, or I need to become “this” for someone. It is always me, me, me!
Our scripture readings today tell us that we need to pray in order to change our focus from “me” to “He”, or from “me” to “God”. Isaiah said, “for it is you who have accomplished all we have done.” We need to always remember this, and bring this into our prayer.
Here is your challenge: every time something goes well for you, immediately thank God for allowing Him to make that happen. We are given graces and blessings to do many things, and we could not do what we do without God. The idea is to take the focus off of us and “our” accomplishments, and put the focus back on God for allowing the accomplishments to happen through us – not because of us.
Once we take the focus off of us and put it onto God, we will become free of that which makes us weary. For as Jesus said, “…your souls will find rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden light.”
