MY BURDEN IS
LIGHT
25At that time Jesus
declared,
“I thank you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding
and revealed them to little children; 26yes, Father, for such was your gracious
will.
27All things have
been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son
chooses to reveal him.
28Come to me, all who
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you,
and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest
for your souls.
30For my yoke is
easy, and my burden is light.”
MATTHEW 11:25-30
COMMENTARY
Lord Jesus made this
reflection in a loud voice for our benefit, after He was asked if He was the
Messiah, by John the Baptist’ disciples and clarifying to his listeners about their
vision on John’s ministry and the stand of others about Himself.
Many had problems in
identifying Him as the promised Messiah and did not give his message the
importance it deserved. Due to this phenomenon is that our Lord Christ gives
thanks to God Almighty for revealing his identity to the simple and disposed of
heart, who had come to believe in Him and accepted his message. He compares them
to ‘little children’ (Mt 18:3) because they had the innocence of children and
were sensitive to the Holy Spirit who guided them to Jesus.
Jesus leaves clear
his eternal subjection to his Father GOD, when He says that everything was ‘given’
to Him by God; but also declares his divinity by saying that no other being
knows Him better than God and that nobody knows God better than Himself, implying
a natural capability to understand and ‘know’ the infinite, God Himself. And He
also declares that nobody can truly God know, except through Him, by all those
whom He decides to reveal God to them, the same way God has revealed to them
who Jesus is.
A reciprocity gets
established between YHWH and Jesus, in nature and role; a thing no created being
can claim.
Finally our Lord
concludes his reflection by inviting his listeners to repent of their sins and
accept them as the Messiah and the Son of God (Mt 3:2), speaking of his
Lordship as ‘light’ in comparison with the severity of the Law keepers and
those who do not believe in Judaism but still rely on their good conduct as making
them worthy of Heaven.
The Lordship of Jesus
of Nazareth is based on faith and honest attitude, where good conduct emanates
out of a changed heart by Grace and not as a human effort to be accepted by God.
Omar Flores.
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