This is a continuation of my last post.
Friends, my heart is so weary.
As I have learned, God commands me to pour into the people around me, no matter who they are or where I am.
God wants me to experience a taste of a radical Christian life, to get a glimpse of how He sees and loves the world.
He has given me strength and wisdom, peace and patience, and most of all, joy, along the way. Being a part of God’s Kingdom work has been an enormous privilege and blessing.
But every exercise in faith comes with hardship, and recent spiritual warfare have left me a little worse for wear.
It’s difficult to explain how it happened, or what it feels like. Biblical truth that is normally easy for me to believe and apply to my life just seemed a little more distant, a little harder to get to. Kind of like a shelf that is just a few inches out of reach. Little things that normally don’t bog me down needed to be dealt with. Throughout the day for many days, I had to put my life on hold and work through every nagging doubt or misplaced fear.
Weary was the first thing that came to mind. Even the sound of the word expressed how I felt.
Then, God brought me back to this song.
There is hope beyond the suffering, joy beyond the tears, peace in every tragedy, love that conquers fear. I have found redemption in the blood of Christ. My body might be dying, but I’ll always be alive.
The Blue Letter Bible lexicon defines kopiao [weary in Matthew 6:28] as a) to grow tired, exhausted (with toil, burdens or grief); or b) to labour with wearisome effort, toll. Later references equate weary with hardworking (2 Timothy 2:6).
I chose Matthew 6:28, because Jesus affirms the weight of weariness and promises us rest.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Has my life been overwhelming? Yes.
Has it been exhausting? Yes.
Was it worth every second? Absolutely.
I can only be thankful for God’s grace that covers it all.
That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe. – 1 Timothy 4:10
