Question about Mathew 11:28 "Come to Me"?
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
What does that mean and how does one "Go" to Him and "leave our burden?"
THE BATTLE AXE: According to This Word (09/20/2013)—(5.) Believers understand that many of the truths recorded in the holy writings, and attributed to Moses, may have been collected from oral traditions, and the priestly inheritance of families and tribes. It is an aspect of our faith and spirit content from GOD, that this work was directed and overseen by the Holy Spirit. Similarly, New Testament statements and quotations attributed to Jesus and others are affirmed through the witness of the Holy Spirit (we also say, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, the Spirit of Prophecy). Through the endowment of their own imparted, indwelling Spirit from Jesus, believers all may make assertions and descriptions of divine intent, pre-existence and heaven, for this is what it means to prophesy, and speak the word. More than this, through ones own spirit content, the sacred truth and value of all things are to be discerned, acknowledged, and correctly applied.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 9: 11-15, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: All Things Possible? (09/17/2013); Can One Escape? (09/18/2013); Gentiles and the Law? (09/19/2013); His Burden is Light? (12/10/2012); Knowing Who Your Real Friends Are (12/11/2012); How Was GOD Known Before Jesus? (10/06/2012); Jesus, King of Earth? (10/07/2012); Son of Man (11/28/2012); Given the Cloud of Witnesses (11/29/2012)
Janett, here are some points to consider that are often shared among Christian believers, that I trust will further nourish your inner spirit:
(1.) To “come to Christ” is to accept the divinely supplied invitation to have a closer and more intimate relationship with GOD. While GOD is a spirit, and does not have form, or physical substance, GOD may nonetheless be known and understood as alive, real, and present among created beings and living creatures upon the earth. In the same way we know the presence of the wind by its effect upon the trees, a kite, the clouds, believers are taught to discern and recognize when GOD is using the things of our life experience (for example, birth, family, marriage, friendship, death and divorce).
(2.) The make-up and substance of GOD is divinity that may be described as sacred content. Included are inseparable aspects of divine being that include faith, holiness, love, longsuffering, truthfulness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. In baptism, believers receive these substances, and are spoken of as born again from divine DNA, so to speak.
(3.) Many experience life as being full of darkness, fear, rottenness and violence. By acknowledging Christ as an appearance of GOD in human form for the benefit of all Creation, a person may begin to experience a new awareness of human possibilities. Their ideas about GOD must be changed in accordance with the things on record (the holy writings), wherein GOD has revealed himself to mankind using human events over the course of thousands of years, and thousands of lives. There must be a transformation of the believer requiring multiple divine operations that may only be completed through the action of GOD. It is in this sense that a believer rests relying upon GOD (we say, trusting divine grace).
There is far more to be said, correctly applied, and spiritually understood. For example, (4.) Our carnal, material and social realties generate the human need for a mediator to reconnect us with the Creator. Believers may speak to Jesus, just as to another living person, until they are correctly built up to speak directly to GOD in prayer through praise, through practice of various sacraments, through thanks giving, and through prophetic utterance.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith. Love has spoken.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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