Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG) “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to Me. Get away with Me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with Me and work with Me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with Me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
The greatest honour and privilege bestowed upon every human being is the offer to come to Jesus! This is a private invitation. Jesus did not come to establish a faith. We are offered a relationship with God via Jesus. In His words, “Come to Me.” Have you accepted Christ as your Saviour? I don’t want to know if you’ve attended Bible study or church. Indeed, a great number of religious academics in the time of Jesus had done both, and yet they were exhausted, burned out, and disillusioned with religion, with nowhere else to turn or what to do.
Some even believed they would be saved because they knew the Bible. Jesus addressed them, saying,
John 5:39–40 “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about Me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.”
Trusting your Bible for eternal life would be like trusting a flight schedule to get you from one destination to another. The flight schedule can’t fly you there. You can memorize it, write songs about it and sing them beautifully, even emotionally in an airport, but you will remain in the same spot until you board the plane. Only the plane can fly you and only Christ can give you life! “Come to Me.” Jesus says. Come to a person, not a principle or program. “Come to Me.” This is intimately personal.
It is the desire of the God who created you to have a connection with you. You were made by God and you were made for God. Have you come to Him? Even the cry of God in the Old Testament was the same.
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD. ‘Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Either attempting to reconcile with God via good deeds or fleeing from him in sin – both will exhaust you. If you’re tired, worn out, burned out on religion, come to Christ. He invites you now. “Come to Me. Get away with Me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with Me and work with Me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with Me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” Who would possibly turn down an invitation like that?