Encouragement

I read this in my Devotions this morning:

"It is...weariness that makes the words of the carpenter so compelling. Listen to them. 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.'
Come to me...The invitation is to come to Him. Why Him?
He offers the invitation as a penniless rabbi in an oppressed nation. He has no political office, no connections with the authorities in Rome. He hasn't written a best-seller or earned a diploma.
Yet, he dares to look into the leathery faces of farmers and tired faces of housewives and offer rest. He looks into the disillusioned eyes of a preacher or two from Jerusalem. He gazes into the cynical stare of a banker and the hungry eyes of a bartender and makes this paradoxical promise: 'Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.'
The people came. They came out of the cul-de-sacs and office complexes of their day. They brought him the burdens of their existence and he gave them, not religion, not doctrine, not systems, but REST.
As a result, they called Him Lord.
As a result, they called Him Savior.
Not so much because of what he said, but because of what He did.
What He did on the cross during six hours, one Friday...Jesus wasw the only man to walk God's earth who claimed to have an answer for man's burdens. 'Come to me,' He invited them.
My prayer is that you, too, will find rest. And that you will sleep like a baby.

(from Six Hours One Friday by Max Lucado