Come

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”  Matthew 11:28

Oswald Chambers addresses this passage today in My Utmost for His Highest and it is one ouf his toughest lessons.  “As long as you have the tiniest bit of spiritual impertinence, it will always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tell you to do a bit thing, and all He is telling you to do is to ‘come.’”  That is, of course, the dilemma.  I have to do things His way, not mine.

I have mountains my life (I suppose all do, and I should remember that), big-ass, troublesome mountains that are long established.  Mountains I can’t move.  Well, I suppose I could, but doing so would be like getting a little red wagon and a shovel and taking on the mountain.  God on the other hand, has the keys to the bulldozer, the dynamite, the earth mover that can take down the mountain, or heck, the keys to the Jeep that can take me on the trail around it.  Ah, but Chambers puts his finger on the problem: “He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let him.”  Come!