When You are Weary

I sat down to write and realized I had nothing. I've been weary, friends. I've been carrying a lot on my shoulders, teetering between discouraged and trying to hang on to encouragement, arguing with the Enemy and sometimes shouting the Word at him and myself. Hanging on to Jesus' promises. Holding tight to His truth.

And today I was reminded that my Lord has known weariness, too. My Lord has known sorrow and pain and grief. He's felt tears rolling down His face. He's felt earthly pain. And He invited me. He invited me to lay my weariness on His shoulders. Those same shoulders that took the lashes for me. Those same shoulders that carried that beam to the hill. Those same shoulders that rose and fell on a cross in love and in pain and in mercy and in grace. He invited me. There's joy in Easter, but I know, too, the Lord knows, too, the pain that led up to it. I know there is sadness and there is confusion, and there is wonder and there is pain. So if you are weary, today, heavy laden, burdened and discouraged, you aren't without a God Who can't sympathize. You aren't without a Savior Who doesn't extend His arms and offer His shoulders.

Leave it with Him, today, Dear Ones. Snuggle up, like I intend to, with your blanket and your Bible, and maybe some worship music, and lay it all down for Him, today. He invited you. He invites you now. There is joy on Easter morning, oh but the pain that Friday night. God knows them both well- joy and pain. He joys in you, in desires joy for you, but when its pain you feel, Dear Ones, He runs to you and begs, "Lay it on My shoulders".

"Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:28