"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." (Mt 11:28-30 )
Jesus invites his listeners. Now his invitation is turned towards those who are burdened. Jesus wanted to associate with the sufferings and the neglected. His promise of rest is not a rest from work. Because, later he speaks of burden and yoke. He is asking them to have an attitudinal change. But his invitation to those who are burdened remains.
He promises rest. The rest is not cease fro labour but to pick up his you and follow him. The listener has to learn from Jesus. Jesus becomes a model for the workers and those who are heavy of heart. Jesus says that he himself is in a similar situation. Jesus himself is heavy with work and weighed down by burdens.
The lesson that the listeners have to learn is his approach to life. It is living out his life with humility and meekness. Humility in the bible and in Jesus is realizing the presence of God in life and events. A person is humble only when he realizes that God is working in and through events of life. As creatures of God all are in the same situation and hence each one has to be meek and gentle with one another.
