Are we laboring with God's commands? Are we striving to do what the Lord has told us to do, to keep the commands he has given us, to love him with all our heart? This is the command of God. We are to come to him in obedience and in true heartfelt repentance for our sin and failure. And on one level the Lord has made it easy on us. Unlike the gods of the pagans, we do not have to figure out by intuition or by natural revelation what would be pleasing. We have the Scripture which tells us clearly what it is that God expects.
So what do we do? We fail in keeping his commands. We are heavy laden by the Law of God. We are burdened down with our effort to obey. We are weary. What shall we do? He tells us - come to him. We can trust in our Lord, Jesus, who has kept the law on our behalf, who has borne the penalty for our sin in his body. We can look to him and we will see that he is the gentle one. He is the one who has stooped down to lift us up when we could no longer lift ourselves. He is the one who gives us rest from the sin which we see so very clearly when we try to keep God's Law. This is the Gospel. Christ has done what we need. We have only to look to him in repentance and faith.
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