29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 11:28-30
This is a great scripture, it brings great peace to me. But I wanted to focus on the Doing implied in these verses, the first word it uses is COME, it does not say stay there and I will give thee rest, no it says come telling us that we need to seek him out. he does Promise us though "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Luke 11:9
In the very next verse Christ tells us TAKE my yoke upon you, and LEARN of me... TAKE his yoke, What does that mean? It means that he wants us to take his name upon us, and in Matthew 5 it reminds us that " Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." So in essence its telling us that as bearers his name we need to let our lights shine and, do our part to bring his children into the fold. D&C 4 reminds us "For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;"
But in order to Bring one to the knowledge of the truthfullness of the gospel we first need to be convinced of it ourselves, "And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." If we try to teach the truth without knowing it, it will do nothing for the person whom we are trying to teach, I know that if we truly seek we shall find, but we need to seek. And how do we seek? we read out scriptures and rely on personal revelation as well as revelation through the prophet, and the more we follow the commandments the more we will be able to knows the truthfullness of this gospel, and in doing so LEARN of Christ
and ye shall find rest unto your souls... this promise is given to us only after we COME, TAKE, and LEARN
In Conclusion Eternal life can be ours if we are "doers of the word, and not hearers only"
This is a great scripture, it brings great peace to me. But I wanted to focus on the Doing implied in these verses, the first word it uses is COME, it does not say stay there and I will give thee rest, no it says come telling us that we need to seek him out. he does Promise us though "And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Luke 11:9
In the very next verse Christ tells us TAKE my yoke upon you, and LEARN of me... TAKE his yoke, What does that mean? It means that he wants us to take his name upon us, and in Matthew 5 it reminds us that " Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." So in essence its telling us that as bearers his name we need to let our lights shine and, do our part to bring his children into the fold. D&C 4 reminds us "For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul;"
But in order to Bring one to the knowledge of the truthfullness of the gospel we first need to be convinced of it ourselves, "And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." If we try to teach the truth without knowing it, it will do nothing for the person whom we are trying to teach, I know that if we truly seek we shall find, but we need to seek. And how do we seek? we read out scriptures and rely on personal revelation as well as revelation through the prophet, and the more we follow the commandments the more we will be able to knows the truthfullness of this gospel, and in doing so LEARN of Christ
and ye shall find rest unto your souls... this promise is given to us only after we COME, TAKE, and LEARN
In Conclusion Eternal life can be ours if we are "doers of the word, and not hearers only"
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