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Rest for the Weary

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."  Matthew 11:28

 

We forget that Jesus was human as well as divine. He had calluses on His hands. If the chisel slipped and cut His finger, His blood was red and warm like ours. He knew what it meant to work long hours to come in at night tired and weary.

That is one of the reasons Jesus could say with such appeal, "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). When we are exhausted and hurting, we can take comfort from the fact that Jesus knows what it is to be exhausted and hurting.

But the greatest work Jesus did was not in the carpenter's shop, nor at the marriage feast in Cana where He turned the water into wine. The greatest work Jesus did was not when He made the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, nor even the dead to rise.

What was Jesus' greatest work?

His greatest work was what He accomplished through the cross and resurrection. There the burden of our sins was placed on Him, and there He won our salvation. And that is why we can come by faith to Him, and He will give us rest.

From, HOPE for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions, by Billy Graham.