It's that time of year again! It's time for new schedules, catching up with friends, telling stories about our summers, buying new notebooks, pencils, binders, etc. Oh yah and also, it's time to start classes again; to learn History, Math, Science, English, Spanish, French, Music, Phys Ed, Art, Geography, Economics, for nine whole months! That's a whole lot of learning.
Today, Nick starts teaching again too, so we know what it feels like trying to adjust to new schedules and how it is not always easy to get back into the swing of things right away! Wasn't it just the beginning of summer break like yesterday?
Today I was reading Matthew 11:28-30 (click on the link to read it on Bible Gateway). I've read this passage quite a few times but today the part that really stuck to me was verse 29:
"Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls."
Jesus isn't commanding us to learn from him. All he asks us to do is to let him teach us.
This kind of learning is pretty easy to do, really. All he is asking us to do is to come to him with an open heart and mind and he will do the rest. The best part is, he tells us in this same verse, that he is the kind of teacher that is humble and gentle with us. He doesn't force us or intimidate us into learning from him, but he promises that if we allow ourselves to learn from him we will find peace and rest.
I don't know about you but I am going to try harder to open my heart and mind and to ask Jesus to teach me as much as he can this upcoming year.
-Jessica
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