Hello again to all who have or will visit this blog. I looked at it today and the analytics says there have been over 800 views. Not bad. Of course, I'm not going to mention when this blog started....I'll just ignore that and let myself feel good.
I wanted to check back in. After a few mishaps with other blogs and a few mishaps in life, I'm back here, on my knees. Coming back to God because I have no where else to turn. And as I do that, something stirs up in me and says that I shouldn't go back to God simply because I'm unhappy. I feel as if I learned somehow that you should go to God purely because you chose to or want to, not because you need to.
But the bible says different, doesn't it?
In Matthew 11, Jesus says 28“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Jesus does not give an stipulations for what you should be weary from. There's no mention of why you are heavy laden. He just says to go to him.
Another example is the parable of the Prodigal Son. Jesus tells a story of a young man, son to a Rich father and has an inheritance. He decides one day to leave his fathers house, take his inheritance and spend it all on various less than noble things. He comes to his senses one day after sleeping somewhere that only animals sleep and decides to go back to his father; penniless and weary. He has a speech prepared to give to his father in hopes to win his forgiveness. But before he can finish it, his father puts his robe one him and orders his servant to kill a calf in celebration of his son's return. Jesus tells this story, along with other stories, after the people's reaction to him "welcoming sinners" by eating with them and talking with them. Reaching out to them. There was the lost coin and the lost sheep, both also portraying a person, losing and/or searching for something that they loved and rejoicing when it was returned. He did this as to compare God to the one in the story that lost something or someone.
If I'm to understand correctly by the association that I believe Jesus is making in these parables combined with what he said in Matthew about those that are weary. It seems that, even though I would feel like a more noble kneeling is necessary, it's the fact that I'm kneeling that matters. I'll need to take this revelation to heart and not be so quick to judge people.
