It's About Learning

If you talk to anyone right now they will say that they are stressed and anxious. These are stressful and anxious times. I will admit that when I heard that our city went back to Level Red yesterday that my stress shot through the roof!! So many thoughts of, "Not again. What will it look like this time? I'm not sure I can do this again!" Then there are also so many personal hardships that people are facing right now. This is a hard time.

So, how do we walk through this as believers? I remember the scriptures to 'cast my cares on Jesus', and to 'lay all my anxiety and stress at the feet of Jesus'. I KNOW all that, but it doesn't seem to be working. As I was praying the other day I remembered the scripture about taking up the yoke of Jesus, because His burden is easy and His yoke is light. I am terrible about remembering scriptures word for word, so I looked up. As I read it something popped out to me that I had not noticed before. Matthew 11:19 says, "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me." I had missed that 'learn from Me' part. It came to me that as I take up the yoke of Jesus that I begin to learn. We join together under the yoke and walk side by side. He shares the burden and teaches me as I go through these things. I am learning. It is not as if the burden just goes away. It is shared and I am learning.

This has helped me. Yes, it is still hard and very uncertain, but Jesus is teaching me as I go. He is sharing the burden and teaching me about Himself and how to walk through trials and storms. I want to be a good student and learn all that I can. Have you noticed in scripture how many times it tells us to not be afraid? The reason He tells us that so often is because He knows that we will be afraid. So, I am going to learn how to not be afraid. I am going to learn to lay my burdens down and not be anxious. I am not there. In fact, I have a long way to go but I am learning, and for some strange reason that gives me comfort.