Toiling and burdened value. Russian synodal translation. "But to whom will I liken this generation? It is like children who sit on the street and, turning to their comrades, say: we played the flute for you, and you did not dance"
The Lord said to His disciples: everything is delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father; and no one knows the Father except the Son, and to whom the Son wants to reveal. Come to Me, all you who are weary and 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; for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
"All things are delivered to me by my Father." Christ establishes the New Covenant between God and man, and offers peace and joy to an apostate world on terms that must be heard by us. Whatever happens to us, we must come to Christ - He will not reject us and will give us everything we need - because everything is surrendered to Him and He is the Lord of all. All power, all the treasures of heaven and earth are in His hand.
Our Savior has the most intimate knowledge of the Father. “And no one knows the Son but the Father; and no one knows the Father but the Son.” Christ says no one knows Him. No one can penetrate the mystery of His person except God the Father. And he also claims that He is the only one who knows God. The same is proclaimed by the Gospel of John: "No one has ever seen God, the Only Begotten Son, Who exists in the bosom of the Father, He has manifested." When the IV and V Ecumenical Councils define the mystery of Jesus Christ as "true God and true man", when they define the mystery of the consubstantial and inseparable Trinity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, they will give only the most precise definition of what is said in the Gospel.
“No one knows the Father except the Son,” says Christ, “and those to whom the Son is pleased to reveal.” The happiness of people lies in the knowledge of God. This is eternal life. Those who do not know God must turn to Christ. For the light of the knowledge of the glory of God shines on the face of Christ (2 Cor. 4:6). We can only know about God what Christ will reveal to us. There is a completely different way of knowing, different from the usual, rational. God is not comprehended by scientific evidence, He reveals Himself.
Christ God is calling us all to save us all. We must come to Christ as our Rest, and rest in Him. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,” burdened with the weight of labor and sorrow, but rather with the burden of sin. All those and only those are invited to rest in Christ who recognize their sin as a burden and groan under it, who not only understand the evil of sin, especially their own sin, but suffer from it in their souls as from the most serious illness. Only Christ, the physician of our souls and bodies, can heal us. Only in Him can we find rest by living faith - only in God, in His love.
“Take my yoke upon you,” says the Lord. "You are suffering from your yoke, throw it off and try to take Mine, and you will be at ease." The yoke that Christ offers us, He Himself bears - ahead of us, taking upon Himself all our infirmities. “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light,” says Christ. Don't be afraid to take it. The yoke of Christ's commandments is a light yoke. You will not be harmed by it, but it will renew you. This yoke contains love. This is the essence of the commandments of Christ, they are all in one sweet word - love. It may be a little difficult in the beginning, but later on it will be easy. The burden of Christ's Cross is a light, very light burden. As sorrows increase, comfort from Christ God increases.
Christ is our Teacher, and we must become worthy disciples of Him. The Church of Christ is a school of holiness, and we must heed every day the teachings that He gives by His word and the Holy Spirit. We need to learn from Christ in this way in order to know Christ (Eph 4:20), for He, the holy fathers say, is the Teacher and the Teaching, the Guide and the Way. He is all in all.
We must learn from Christ because He is meek and lowly in heart. He is the mercy of God Incarnate. He is meek and filled with compassion for those who do not lead the truth. He patiently explains, without getting irritated, to the most stupid and slow. He is humble in heart. He bows lovingly over the newcomers and teaches the ABCs, which are as necessary to them as milk is to babies. What a gift it is to study in such a school with such a Teacher!
“You will find rest for your souls,” He says. Peace of mind is the most desired peace. The only sure way to find rest for our souls is to sit at the feet of Christ and listen to His word. Our minds rest in the knowledge of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and are overfilled. Our heart rests in the love of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and has fullness of life, tranquility and assurance forever. All who learn from Christ find rest.
“Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mat. 11:28).
All who are weary and burdened can come to Him. These are the words Christ speaks to every man. The toiling and burdened are all men, though they may not be aware of it. Each of us carries a burden that only Christ can lift. The heaviest burden is the burden of sin. If we had to carry it alone, it would crush us. But our place was taken by the Sinless One. “The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). He bore the burden of our guilt. He will take the weight off our weary shoulders. He will give us peace. He will also bear the burden of worries and sorrows. He calls us to cast all our cares on Him because we are dear to Him. Our Elder Brother is at the eternal throne. He looks to every soul that turns to Him, to the Savior. By his own experience He knows human weaknesses and needs; He knows the power of temptation: after all, He, like us, was tempted in everything, but did not commit sin. He watches over you, trembling child of God! Are you tempted? He will deliver you from temptation. You are weak? He will strengthen you. Are you clueless? He will enlighten you. Are you hurt? He will heal. The Lord "calculates the number of stars," and He “he heals the brokenhearted and heals their sorrows” (Ps. 146:4, 3).“Come to Me,” He calls. Whatever your anxieties and hardships, tell your troubles to the Lord. He will strengthen your spirit. You will open the way to liberation from difficulties and hardships. The more you realize your weakness and helplessness, the sooner you will find support in Him. The heavier your burden, the more blissful will be the rest when you turn to the One who bears all burdens. The rest that Christ offers depends on well-defined conditions. Everyone can do them. The Lord tells us how we can find His rest.
“Take my yoke upon you,” says Jesus. The yoke is an instrument of service. It is put on the animal so that it can work. In this example, Christ seeks to reveal to us one truth: we are called to a ministry that will last until the end of our days. We must take upon ourselves His yoke in order to become His laborers together. The yoke that makes us servants of God is His law. The great law of love, revealed in Eden, proclaimed from Sinai, and sealed in the hearts of the New Testament, commits us to the will of God. If we were left in the power of our inclinations and our will, we would fall into the camp of Satan and acquire his qualities. Therefore, God submits us to His will - holy, sublime and noble. He wants us to be patient and wise in our ministry. Christ Himself, being in human flesh, took upon Himself this yoke of service. He said: “I desire to do Your will, My God, and Your law is in my heart” (Ps. 39:9), “for I came down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of the Father who sent Me” (John 6:38). Love for God, a desire to glorify Him, and love for fallen humanity motivated Jesus to come to earth to suffer and die. This was the driving force behind His life. He encourages us to embrace this principle. Many people, seeking to achieve well-being in this world, groan under the weight of worries. They chose to serve the world, accepted all the difficulties associated with this, obeyed its rules. Therefore, such a person is corrupted, and life is a burden for him. To satisfy their ambitions and worldly desires, people go against their conscience and suffer under the burden of guilt. Constant care drains vitality. The Lord calls them to break these bonds of bondage and take His yoke. He says, "My yoke is easy, and my burden is light." He advises: one should seek, first of all, the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and promises that everything necessary for earthly life will be added. Vanity blinds, and a person does not think about the future. But Jesus sees all ends and beginnings. He knows how to find a way out of any predicament. Our Heavenly Father has prepared for us thousands of ways that we know nothing about. Those who make the service of God and His glory their highest goal, will see how all difficulties will disappear and their path will be straightened.
“Learn from Me,” Jesus calls, “for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” We must go through the school of Christ in order to learn from Him meekness and humility. Atonement is the process of preparing for life in heaven. This preparation means knowing Christ. It means liberation from the thoughts, habits and customs acquired in the school of the prince of darkness. Man must be free from everything that is contrary to the will of God. In the heart of Christ, where there was perfect harmony with God, there was perfect peace. Praise never delighted Him, and censure and disappointment did not unsettle Him. Experiencing the most fierce opposition, being subjected to the most cruel treatment, He did not lose his presence of mind. But many of those who call themselves His followers are worried and worried because they are afraid to trust God. They do not obey Him completely because they fear the consequences of such obedience. They will not find peace until they submit to the will of God. The cause of all anxiety is selfishness. When we are born again, we will have the same mindset as Jesus, who humbled Himself to save us. Then we will not seek a more honorable place for ourselves. We will be willing to sit at the feet of Jesus and learn from Him. We will understand: the significance of our labors is not in noise, not in ostentatious activity and zeal, the significance of our labors does not depend on our strength at all. The value of our deeds is determined by how much we have received the Holy Spirit. Trust in the Lord sanctifies the mind and helps to endure everything patiently. The yoke is put on animals to help them carry the load, to lighten its weight. So it is with the yoke of Christ. When our will merges with the will of God and we use His gifts to bless others, we find that the burden of our lives becomes light. He who walks in the ways of the commandments of God walks with Christ, and in His love the heart finds rest. When Moses prayed: "Reveal Your Way to Me, that I may Know You", the Lord answered him: “I myself will go and bring you to rest” (Ex. 33:13, 14).
And when Jesus finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went from there to teach and preach in their cities.
John, having heard in prison about the works of Christ, sent two of his disciplessay to him: Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?
And Jesus said to them in answer: go tell John what you hear and see:the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor preach the gospel;and blessed is he who is not offended by me.
As they left, Jesus began to speak to the people about John: what did you go to see in the desert? a reed shaken by the wind?What did you go to see? a man dressed in soft clothes? Those who wear soft clothes are in the palaces of the kings.What did you go to see? a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.For he is the one about whom it is written: “Behold, I send my angel before your face, who will prepare your way before you.”Truly, I say to you, of those born of women, no greater than John the Baptist has arisen; but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than him.From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it by force,for all the prophets and the law had prophesied before John.And if you want to receive, he is Elijah, who must come.Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!
But to whom shall I liken this generation? He is like children who sit in the street and, addressing their comrades,they say: “we played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang sad songs to you, and you did not weep."For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: “He has a demon.”The Son of Man has come, eating and drinking; and they say: “Here is a man who loves to eat and drink wine, a friend to tax collectors and sinners.” And wisdom is justified by her children.
Then He began to reproach the cities, in which His might was most manifested, because they did not repent:woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if in Tire and Sidon the powers manifested in you were manifested, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes,but I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tire and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.And you, Capernaum, who ascended to heaven, you will fall down to hell, for if the powers manifested in you had been manifested in Sodom, then it would have remained until this day;but I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.
At that time, continuing to speak, Jesus said: I praise Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to infants;hey, Father! for such was thy good pleasure.Everything is delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father; and no one knows the Father except the Son, and to whom the Son wants to reveal.
Come to Me, all you who are weary and 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;for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
St. Basil the Great
Why are those who labor in good works called burdened? because “Walking walkers and weeping, throwing their seeds, but in the future they will come with joy, taking up their hilts”(Ps. 125:6), full of fruits, which are returned to them according to the amount sown. Wherefore they are called burdened who, inasmuch as "sow for blessings, for blessings and reap"(cf.: 2 Cor. 9, 6) and prepare for themselves with eternal joy the handles of spiritual fruits.
Conversations on the Psalms. Discourse on the forty-eighth psalm.
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest", - says the Divine voice, pointing either to the rest there or to the rest here. But without a doubt, calling us, he exhorts, firstly, to overthrow the burden of acquisitiveness, passing it on to those in need, and then, rejecting all the many sins that come from acquisitiveness, through good deeds and confession, flow to the crusading life of monks. Therefore, he who intends to obey Christ and hastens to a poor and unentertained life is truly worthy of surprise and satisfaction.
An ascetic word and exhortation about renunciation of the world and about spiritual perfection.
St. John Chrysostom
Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Then, having awakened in them by His preaching disposition towards Himself and showing them His indescribable power, He calls to Himself, saying: Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.. Not one or the other come, but come all those who are in worries, sorrows and sins; come, not that I may torment you, but that I may blot out your sins; come not because I need glory from you, but because I need your salvation.
I, He speaks, - I will calm you down. He did not say: I will save only; but, more importantly, I will put you in perfect safety.
Conversations on the Gospel of Matthew.
St. Cyril of Alexandria
The one who heard the call, approached and clung to the Commander, rests. “Step aside,” He says, “from the sinful designs and attachments of the flesh, and turning to works worthy of praise, draw near to Me, so that you may become partakers of the divine nature and partakers of the Holy Spirit.” And He calls everyone, not just the children of Israel, being the Creator and Lord of all. Workers He calls the Jews who could not bear the yoke of the law, but burdened idolaters, because they are burdened by the devil and burdened with many sins. So, "ye Jews," He says, "lean toward the truth, know Me, your Guardian and Master, and draw near to Me, profit from My coming. Indeed, I free you from slavery under the law, in which you endure many hardships, since it is not easy for you to fulfill this law, and you prepare for yourself the greatest burden of sins, which [the more], the more [prescriptions] of the law you had to fulfill and observe.
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.
St. Ignatius (Bryanchaninov)
The yoke and burden of Christ are the gospel commandments. They require self-sacrifice, and therefore they are called the yoke, but they free and enliven the soul, fill it with inexplicable peace and pleasure, and therefore they are called the good and light yoke. Each of them is fragrant with meekness and humility, communicates these virtues to the performer of the commandment. The habit of fulfilling the gospel commandments makes meekness and humility a property of the soul. Then Divine grace introduces into the soul spiritual meekness and spiritual humility through the action of the world of Christ, which exceeds the mind.
ascetic experiences. About the gospel commandments.
Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Come to me, the sacred mother of all virtues invites us - prayer, all workers under the yoke of passions in captivity of fallen spirits, encumbrance various sins, and I will rest you. Take my yoke upon you, and you will find rest for your souls.(see Matt. 11:29), healing your ulcers. Yoke for my blessing(see Matt. 11:30), is able to heal from sins, and the greatest ones.
About prayer.
St. Justin (Polyansky)
Art. 28-30 Come to me, all you who are weary and 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; for my yoke is easy and my burden is light
How touching is this commandment, by which the Lord—the Way, the Truth, and the Life—calls to Himself all those who labor and are burdened, and promises to give them rest! He seems to be asking and begging them: take my yoke upon you: it - good; learn meekness and humility from me: burden ce easily. And the beloved disciple of Christ, St. The Evangelist John the Theologian, of course, says from experience that commandments Christ's not heavy(1 Jn. 5:3) . How happy is he who keeps these commandments! Meekness and humility are also inseparable: where meekness is, there is humility; and where there is humility, there is meekness.
The commandments of the Lord and our God Jesus Christ.
St. Luka Krymsky
Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
I know, I know how burdened you are with life and work, how much peace you need. Let us go to Him, our Savior, Who calls us, let us learn from Him - and we will find the only true and blissful peace.
Let us learn from Him humility, which was so clearly manifested already at His birth in the cattle pen, in the manger of Bethlehem.
Let us think about what persecutions He was subjected to throughout His life: already as a newborn baby He escaped to Egypt from Herod, who wanted to kill Him.
After the full truth of His preaching in the synagogue of Nazareth, He was led in a violent crowd to the edge of a high rock in order to cast Him into the abyss. More than once the Jews grabbed stones to beat Him for preaching Him about Himself.
Have you ever been persecuted with such fury? Think of Him, so often offended. Those who reviled Him said that He performed His great miracles with the power of demons.
Remember this - both small and insignificant will seem to you the insults and black suspicions that you hear about yourself.
You have many sorrows, and it is difficult for you to endure them. Diseases torment you, and you endure them cowardly. Did not Isaiah call Him, our Lord, a Man of Sorrows and a Knower of Sickness?
His humility was so immeasurable that He, the sinless Son of God, received from John the Forerunner the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, for He had to fulfill all righteousness. Let us learn humility from Him. Let us love and fulfill all righteousness.
You are tired of constant work and crave rest. And He and His apostles saints were always in such unceasing labors that often there was no time even for them to take food.
You are burdened with cares for yourself and your families. And He had constant concern for the huge crowd of people who accompanied Him, waiting from Him for the words of His Divine teaching and the healing of their countless sick.
You need rest... But He did not have it, and only sometimes He even left His disciples somewhere on a high mountain, so that there, in the deep stillness of the night, He could rest his soul in prayerful communion with His Father.
You often get tired... Didn't He get tired more than you, walking 200 miles from Jerusalem to Galilee?
It is difficult for you to endure insults and insults, bewilderment and dishonor ... Remember how in the Garden of Gethsemane He was tied up as a robber; how, at the trial in the house of the high priest, even the servants beat him on the cheeks with dirty hands and spat in his face; how they covered his face with a handkerchief, beat him on the head with a stick and said: “Tell me, Christ, who struck you?”
Think about how all your offenses and insults are as insignificant compared to this dishonor of the Son of God, like the smallest grain of sand compared to the highest mountains.
Think about this - and your indignation and indignation will subside, and you will find rest for your souls(see Matt. 11:29).
Remember how mercilessly they beat the Lord Jesus with terrible Roman whips that tore off pieces of the body; how He fell under the weight of His cross.
And above all and most of all, always keep before your spiritual eyes His terrible cross, His crucifixion; the blood that flowed over the cross and dripped onto the ground, the blood with which He washed our sins.
Sermons. Volume III. Word of the Week of the Cross.
Rev. Macarius the Great
As then God commanded that even the most dumb animals should rest on the Sabbath, the ox should not be dragged under the yoke of necessity, and the donkey should not be burdened; because the animals themselves rested from hard work: so the Lord, having come and granted the true and eternal Sabbath, gave rest to the soul, burdened and weighed down by the burdens of lawlessness, impure thoughts, doing deeds of unrighteousness out of need, because it is in bondage to cruel rulers, and lightened it from unbearable burdens, from vain and impure thoughts; removed from her the heavy yoke of the deeds of unrighteousness, gave rest to her weary in impure thoughts.
For the Lord calls man to rest. saying: " Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest". And those souls that submit and come, He will give rest from these heavy, burdensome and impure thoughts; they become idle from all iniquity, they keep the true, pleasant and holy Sabbath, they celebrate the spiritual feast of inexpressible joy and fun, they perform a pure and pleasing service to God from a pure heart. And this is the true and holy Sabbath. Therefore, let us also beseech God that we also enter into this rest, to be abolished from shameful, crafty and vain thoughts; and thus come to the opportunity to serve God with a pure heart, and celebrate the feast of the Holy Spirit. And blessed is he who enters that rest.
Collection of type II manuscripts. Conversation 35.
Rev. Seraphim of Sarov
Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
If a person does not have any care for himself for the sake of love for God and deeds of virtue, knowing that God cares for him, then such a hope is true and wise. And if a person takes care of his own affairs and turns to God with prayer only when inevitable troubles already befall him, and he does not see in his own strength the means to avert them and begins to hope for God's help, such a hope is vain and false. True hope seeks the one Kingdom of God and is sure that everything earthly, necessary for temporary life, will undoubtedly be given. The heart cannot have peace until it acquires this hope. She will appease him and pour joy into him. The venerable and most holy lips spoke of this hope: come to Me, all who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest i.e. trust in me and you will be comforted from labor and fear.
Teachings.
Blzh. Augustine
Art. 28-29 Come to me, all you who are weary and 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
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me: do not create the universe, do not create everything visible and invisible, do not perform miracles in this world and do not raise the dead, for I am meek and lowly in heart. If you want to be great, start small. If you are planning to erect a building of great height, first begin with the foundation of humility. And everyone who wants and intends to erect a structure of impressive size, digs the deeper, the higher the structure is. When a building is erected, it rises; but he who digs the foundation sinks down. Thus, the building is humiliated before the elevation, and the roof is erected after the humiliation.
Sermons.
Blzh. Hieronymus Stridonsky
Art. 28-29 Come to me, all you who are weary and 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
And the prophet Zechariah testifies that the burden of sin is great when he says that iniquity sits on the talent of lead (Zechariah ch. 5), and the Psalmist exclaims with weeping: My iniquities exceeded my head, like a heavy burden they weighed down on me.(Ps. 37:5) . Or perhaps here He calls to the grace of the Gospel those who were under the yoke of a very heavy yoke of the law.
Blzh. Theophylact of Bulgaria
Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
He calls everyone: not only Jews, but also Gentiles. Under working people understand the Jews, for they go through the difficult ordinances of the law and labor in doing the commandments of the law, and under burdened- pagans who were burdened with the weight of sins. Christ calms all these, For what a labor it is to believe, confess and be baptized. But how can you not calm down when here you no longer grieve about the sins that were committed before baptism, and there peace will seize you?
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.
Evfimy Zigaben
Come to Me, all who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest
Laboring over the commission of sin, and burdened with its weight. Do you see how He showed that sin has both a work and a burden? Labor is before it is done, and burden is after it.
It can be said in another way: laboring over the vain and burdened with worries about it. And I will rest you, i.e. I will release both from this labor and from this burden.
Interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew.
Lopukhin A.P.
Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
This and subsequent verses to the end of the chapter have not the slightest parallel in all other evangelists and are found only in Matthew. The speech in the original is distinguished by extreme softness and love, but at the same time by extreme energy and brevity. Here is the depth of theology, reminiscent of the Gospel of John and bringing the Gospel of Matthew closer to it. Instead of the less vivid ἔρχεσθε - imperative δεῦτε, unexpressed in translations and meaning: here, to Me! The words here uttered by the Savior, it is rightly observed, would be blasphemy if they were spoken by the mouth of an ordinary man. But in the mouth of the Son of Man they are natural. "The little word everything has a vast meaning." Here is the most important and final answer to the question: σὺ εἶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος… δεῦτε πρός με πάντες. These words are reminiscent of Is. 45:22, where similar speech is put into the mouth of the Most High Himself. But there are even more similarities with several passages in the book of Jesus son of Sirach (cf. Matt. 11:25 = Sir. 51:1, 14; Matt. 11:28= Sir. 51:31, ; Matt. 11:29 = Sir. 51:34, 35; in Greek LXX according to Tischendorf's edition, the score of poems is different).
Explanatory Bible.
“Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest!” (Mt. 11:28).
Today's fast-paced 21st century leaves its mark on our lives. And such manifestations as: depression, fear, loneliness - become an integral part of our lives. But this is wrong! It should not be!
Let us consider the roots and ways out of these problems.
Depression: When do we most often get depressed? Probably when there is disappointment in our lives.
We are on the edge. It seemed that we climbed out of our skin to change: ourselves, husband, wife, children, financial conditions, etc., but all in vain, and often because of our efforts it becomes even worse. Then we give up and go with the flow, starting to blame ourselves, condemning others, but ...
Is there a way out in this situation? There is!
If you think that I have never been in a situation like yours, you are wrong. Everyone has moments of depression. The only difference is how long it takes to get out of it. One is enough - an hour, another - a day, the third - a month, the fourth - years. How can this time be shortened?
You know, there is an interesting parable about Solomon's ring: “King Solomon had a ring on which was written: “Everything passes!”. And when problems, disappointments, sorrows came to him, he looked at the ring, remembered that “everything passes” and calmed down. But, one day, a terrible situation happened in his life, it seemed to him that there was no need to live anymore. Solomon looked at the ring - got angry, took it off his finger and was about to throw it away, when he suddenly noticed that there was another inscription on the back of the ring. And he read it. It said, "This too shall pass!" Then Solomon understood everything, grinned at God's providence and calmed down, thanking the Lord for science.
This is not a biblical parable, but there is some truth in it. The truth is that you have not yet known God as you should have! Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and 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!” (Mt. 11:28).
All your problems are that you trust in yourself, in circumstances, in anything and anyone, but not in God. But only God has a future and hope for you: “For [only] I know the intentions that I have for you, says the Lord, intentions for good, and not for evil, to give you a future and hope.”
Stop looking at your situation with human eyes that see only the facts. Start looking at the world through the eyes of God, eyes full of faith!
Start looking at your life from the perspective of eternity, for: “The world is passing away, and so is its desire, but he who does the will of God abides forever” (1 Jon. 2:17).
Look to Jesus! Before his death on Golgotha, when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, none of the people supported Him, only His Father and His angels (Luke: 22:43), when they took Him captive, everyone left Him, even Peter denied Him three times . And after all of Him - God, who could, using His power, like the Son of God, in an instant wipe out all His offenders from the face of the Earth - was beaten by them, tortured, insulted, laughed at, spat in His face, He was beaten with whips, He was given a crown of thorns and, after all the abuse, they crucified him on a cross, piercing His hands and feet with huge nails.
Do you think Jesus can understand your situation? Accept your pain?
Yes! And He wants to do it, just turn to Him for help, trust Him with your problems, open your heart to Him.
Remember: "This too shall pass!" All your problems, compared to eternity, are negligible to grieve over for so long.
Remember: God is always with you! Do not live aimlessly, find yourself a worthy goal. For example, knowing God! Pick up the Bible and start studying it! Do not bring joy to the devil with your depressions. Make God happy with your victories!
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