"Resting In God's Love" -2

"Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28) I think that there is more to this than we might have been told; at least what we were told in Sunday School. Having tried to find rest in Jesus from the burdens of this life, I wonder if that is really the rest He is referring to? Because I think it is something a little more intimate and meaningful to the heart, than the weariness of survival. In Matthew 11, Jesus is confronted by the disciples of John the Baptist, asking, "Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?"; this he sent them to ask Jesus as he was in prison and heard of the works Jesus had done. I find it rather odd that John would question who Jesus was, especially after first seeing Him and declaring, "Behold, the Lamb of God". After this encounter with John's disciples, Jesus began to list some things about John's ministry, and in verses 16-19 Jesus says something rather odd: "But whereunto shall I liken this generation? it is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil. The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, and a friend of publicians and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children". Then Jesus goes on to list cities in which mighty works were done because the people would not listen and repent; finally coming to verse 25, where He declares the why behind the reason for the seekers not finding, the lost not hearing, and the wicked not caring: "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for it seemed good in Thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father, neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him." After saying these things, Jesus then says what we find, and have come to memorize from childhood: "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." John the Baptist had rested, but was currently not resting, as he wondered if Jesus was actually the Lamb of God, which he once thought that He was. Many of us labour continually, looking and hoping for the rest we might find from searching for answers to those things which stumble us, or rest from doubting the answers that are given; yet, it is not about seeing the answers; it is about finding the Love of God, and then resting in that!!!