WEIGHTLESS BURDEN

What you believe matters. What you believe is the fabric of what your reality is.

Do you trust, for example? If you trust her today, and what she says, your view on your very self (and where you will go this day, and what lay ahead...), changes in the believing... Do you believe, however, that she is lying to you? Again, in that instant of seeing and calling it false, your view on self, your day, your way, morphs...
 
Physical things impact our view on life itself, or on the spiritual. The sun shines and pours heat and light into your eyes on this morning's drive, and certain things are true in that moment to your soul. Maybe life, marriage, kids, health, are all imbued with a touch of hope, a sun ray through the heart of being... Maybe darkness and cold and rain hit your window pane this morning, and memories and words stamp your truth about your life, marriage, kids, health...
 
Jesus asked us to believe that he was the Son of God, in other words God's very expression of Self in human form (John 10:30; 8:58; 5:24). This was his message. His message was not primarily one of loving your neighbor; this, rather, was what He said was the 'second most important command' (Matthew 22:36-40). Jesus was about 'faith'. He called on us to 'believe' that He was telling the truth - about Himself - and therefore about you and me.
 
Without faith - without believing Him and His report – we cannot and do not access that reality. We don't access each other's report without believing, and we don't access God's report without believing.
 
My heaviest burden today is not what I see and believe and hold, but what I do not see and do not believe and do not hold. My burden comes from a fragmented self that cannot walk, cannot stand. I have not believed God and His report about Himself, and therefore about me, and I am less. This state of not being whole, not seeing clearly, not cohering, leaves me feeling burdened down, overwhelmed, lost and heavy. But this weight on me is the weight of incompleteness in and through me. The truth is my 'weight' is what is not true to me, because of what - or Who - I am not believing.
 
Jesus said, 'Come to me all you who are heavy laden and I will give you rest... Take my yoke upon you...' (Matthew 11:28-30)
 
To take up Christ's yoke - to believe in Him - is to take rest up upon your shoulders.