Come to Me!

Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28, 29

The Lord's command to all the believers today is "Come to Me!" If there be any do's that have to be done it must be "to come to the  Lord Jesus Christ and abide in Him continually" all the days of our lives. In fact, this is the best commandment to be obeyed. For in Him is all the fulfillment of the laws, the statutes and the ordinances. Just come to Jesus!

I recently have been experiencing the intrinsic significance of coming to Jesus in a very intimate, sweet, restful and peaceful way, beginning this year. Though I had been knowing objectively that I should come to the Lord Jesus, take His yoke and learn from Him, but in my living and service in the past, it seemed that I was far away from this reality. My understanding of coming to Him is often that of prayer for His guidance and help in carrying out a service or work that I was burdened for or assigned to. So often, I would come to the Lord for His help, blessing, grace etc...

The Lord's word here is a "sweet command" to come to Him, not just for help, grace or blessing, but to be one with Him organically, inwardly, subjectively as our life and living and even outwardly to testify Him, magnify Him and glorify Him for His eternal purpose. When brought into such oneness, the result is that of abiding in John 15, where we bear fruits, and the fruits remains.

These days, I did not sense any struggle which I used to have in my Christian life. The Lord just carries out His work in Him and through me, little by little, one by one. For instance, one of the point is in gospel preaching where I used to "change" my position and condition to exercise the Lord's authority to save sinners. But now, as and when opportunity arises, I simple preach the word and lead sinners to salvation. No sensible outward struggle at all, not even a weigh of burden, but living out the Lord's life, speaking forth the Lord's word and shining forth the Lord's light. It is so light and so easy. 

A big struggle that I used to have is in saving sinners, shepherding and even raising up the church. Yes of course, it is the Body matter, and lot of prayer and coordination involved, but this time, my experience is, through all our coordination in the Body, in time, the Lord just prepares His chosen ones and gathers them together to be the church in that locality. Not undermining the fact that we should cooperated with the Lord in the principle of incarnation in praying, planning, preparing and propagating, yet I did not sense any struggle like I used to when participating in raising up churches in other localities in the past. This is not just my experience, other brothers and sisters testified of similar experiences; the Lord working in us and through us as we "come to Him."  The following notes from Recovery Version have simply described my subjective experiences of coming to the Lord these days. 

Note on "toil" from the Holy Bible, Recovery Version

This refers not only to the toil of striving to keep the commandments of the law and religious regulations but also to the toil of struggling to be successful in any work. Whoever toils thus is always heavily burdened. After the Lord extolled the Father, acknowledging the Father's way and declaring the divine economy, He called this kind of people to come to Him for rest.

Note on "yoke" from the Holy Bible, Recovery Version

To take the Lord's yoke is to take the will of the Father. It is not to be regulated or controlled by any obligation of the law or religion or to be enslaved by any work, but to be constrained by the will of the Father. The Lord lived such a life, caring for nothing but the will of His Father (John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38). He submitted Himself fully to the Father's will (26:39, 42). Hence, He asks us to learn from Him.

Lord, I come to Thee, to rest in Thee.