Jesus said:
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Jesus tells us to come to him. This can provide great comfort for us if we understand who he is.
'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,'
if they ask me, 'What is his name?' what am I to tell them?"
God replied, "I am who am."
Then he added, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel:
I AM sent me to you."
Sometimes the call to come to Jesus is not an easy call. God may want us to come to worship him on his holy mountain. He even calls us to the promised land. But we can be assured that the king of Egypt is not be happy about it. The devil will try to stop us. There is no way we would undertake such a journey against such odds on our own initiative.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.
This journey, fortunately for us, is God's initiative. The one who is the fullness of being himself. He promises to journey with us. He will do whatever is necessary to bring us out into freedom.
I will stretch out my hand, therefore,
and smite Egypt by doing all kinds of wondrous deeds there.
After that he will send you away.
We can find rest and have peace because of the one to whom we come. We can journey in confidence because the one who calls us on the journey remains with us and guides us. We encounter obstacles that seem to be imposing by the very weight of their existence. We need to remember, at such times, that only God truly is. All else passes. Nothing can overcome him. Nothing can even challenge him. Because he is with us there is nothing we need to fear.
He sent Moses his servant;
Aaron, whom he had chosen.
They wrought his signs among them,
and wonders in the land of Ham.
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