Mark 6:30-34; Isaiah 41:10; 1 John 3:1; Philippians 2:13; Romans 7:24,25; Romans 8:1
Are you tired? I’m sure that you are, because I know that your vocation requires you to be gone many hours. And sometimes those hours turn into days and weeks and months where you are apart from family and friends, and that makes you tired.
Others of you have 9 to 5 jobs, but it still leaves you tired, and you need rest. Some of you are husbands and wives, others of you are fathers and mothers, and some of you are children. All of you have friends.
And marriage takes work and parenting takes work and loving your parents takes work and being a friend takes work. And if you’re like me, if you look at all of these relationships that you have, you may feel that you’re lacking a little bit or maybe a lot in those relationships. And it makes you tired.
And maybe for some of you, you’re feeling tired because there’s this addiction that you’re struggling with, and you’re just tired from fighting it.
And maybe for others of you, you have this guilt that hangs over your body like a drill sergeant and reminds you how worthless you are.
There were crowds of people who wer