The Meek and the Lowly in Heart!
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”
Jesus says, “take my yoke upon you and learn of me” – beloved, how are we learning of Jesus? When we take His yoke upon us we have to understand it is no longer of our own efforts that we are justified but by the grace and mercy of God. We are justified by His Faith. As we learn more of Him daily, we are fully renewed to His perfect image of meekness and lowly in heart. We are no longer burdened by own heavy laden which we labour with by trying to attain righteousness through works and good deeds of the law. Jesus has set us His disciples (you and I – Believers) free by being the Perfect Sacrifice and we are perfected in His RIGHTEOUSNESS when we take on His yoke. It is when we take on His yoke upon us and allow ourselves to learn of Him in Spirit and in Truth that we can be transformed into His character of “meek and lowly in heart”, and ultimately find rest for our souls.
The heart that does not yield to the Yoke that Jesus is talking about cannot be transformed and their soul is bereft of rest. The Lord says, “for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”, it is devoid of all the complications of the Law, for He fulfilled it all in His Love. And thus commanded us in Matthew 22:36-38 when asked “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself”
Beloved, upon these commandments are all the laws of the prophets hung as would see in the next verse. However, loving the Lord with your your heart, soul and mind and loving your neighbour as yourself, although a light burden, it is still a yoke. It requires total submission to the leading of the Holy Spirit and not acting in the sinful nature of the flesh which is contrary to the Spirit. That is why we must learn more of Jesus each day to imbibe His character by the Power of the Holy Spirit, so we too can become more like Him, “Meek and Lowly in Heart”.
Dearly beloved of God, my earnest prayer for you is the words of Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:1-2 – “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love”.
God bless you and keep your heart till the day of His coming. Amen and Amen!
Blessings
Pastor Joyce