Third Sunday Meditation: Taking His Yoke

"Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look;
and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is;
then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."
Jeremiah 6:16

Come Unto Me
Joann Reed


"At that time Jesus began to say,
"I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
and I acknowledge openly and joyfully to Your honor,
that You have hidden these things from the wise
and clever and learned, and revealed them to
the childish, untaught, and unskilled.

Yes, Father, I praise You that such was Your gracious
will and good pleasure.

All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me
by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately
understands the Son except the Father,
and no one fully knows and accurately understands
the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son
deliberately wills to make Him known.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden
and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest.
I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.

Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me,
for I am gentle, meek, and humble, lowly in heart,
and you will find rest, relief and ease and refreshment
and recreation and blessed quiet for your souls.

For My yoke is wholesome, useful, good-
not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing,
but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant,
and My burden is light and easy to be borne."
Matthew 11:25-30

"For A Renaissance Of Faith"


Our Father, remove from us the sophistication of our age
and the skepticism that has come, like frost, to blight our faith
and to make us weak.

Bring us back to a faith that makes men great and strong,
a faith that enables us to love and to live,
the faith by which we are triumphant,
the faith by which alone we can walk with Thee.

We pray for a return of that simple faith,
that old-fashioned faith,
that made strong and great homes of our ancestors
who built this good land and who in building left us our heritage.

In the strong name of Jesus, our Lord, we make this prayer.
Amen.




"For A Renaissance Of Faith"
Reverend Peter Marshall Sr.
(1902-1949)
Scots-American Preacher
Twice-elected Chaplain of the United States Senate