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So Tired of Being Tired
Rev. Thomas A. West, Sr
July 24, 2022
Matthew 11:28-30
A couple of weeks ago, I was taking out the trash before going to bed, I heard a female voice on the other side of our access gate, asking to be let in.
To my amazement, it was a woman trying to deliver the mail for our complex.
She was from the Modesto Postal Center Center and had done her area and was sent to cover part of Tracy.
She was on a, what I think she said was 14 days since her last day off and she didn't know when her next day off would be.
Now, I'm sorry but I don't believe a woman should be delivering mail at 9:30 at night.
Not with the way things are today.
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But I digress, I shouldn't really be talk about time off because my wonderful wife and helpmate, often reminds me that I need to take some time off.
I basically work 7 days a week, until recently I was working 6 days a week at my former employers.
I have to laugh because about a month ago I was diagnosed with non-COVID pneumonia and the doctor at the ER ordered medication, plenty of liquids and rest.
As I let everyone in my circle know what the doctors said, everyone of them said the exact same thing, I will take the meds, I will drink the liquids, BUT … did I say but … the rest was going to be an issue.
Ok, stop laughing, you all know I can't sit still for very long.
Any way I did sit still for 3 1/2 days.
That's a long time for me.
Anyway …
Do you feel a little like that today?
Burnt out?
Used up?
Worked over?
Someone recently said: “Much of our activity these days is nothing more than a cheap anesthetic to deaden the pain of an empty life.”
And another put it this way: “The trouble with life is that it is so daily!” James Dobson calls the daily grind – the straight life.
He describes it this way:
“The straight life for a homemaker is washing dishes three hours a day; it is cleaning sinks and scouring toilets and waxing floors; it is chasing toddlers and mediating fights between preschool siblings. . . .
The straight life is driving your station wagon to school and back 23 times per week; it is grocery shopping and baking cupcakes for the class Halloween party.
The straight life eventually means becoming the parent of an ungrateful teenager which I assure you is no job for sissies.
(It’s difficult to let your adolescent find himself – especially when you know he isn’t even looking!)
The straight life . . . is pulling your tired frame out of bed, five days a week, fifty weeks out of the year.
It is earning a two-week vacation in August, and choosing a trip that will please the kids.
The straight life is coping with head colds and engine tune-ups and crab grass and income-tax forms.”
It wears us out even thinking about how much there is to do, and how little time to do it.
I’m tired just thinking about it.
How about you?
All of this stress leads many of us to adopt other alternatives to satisfy us and give us some relief.
Someone told me of one of his favorites has been the stress diet.
Have you tried it yet?
Let me share it with you, just in case you want to try it…
For breakfast:
½ grapefruit
1 piece of whole wheat toast
8 oz. of skim milk
Lunch
4 oz. of lean broiled chicken breast
1 cup of steamed zucchini
1 Oreo cookie
herb tea
Mid-afternoon snack
rest of the Oreo cookies
1 qt of rocky road ice cream
I jar of hot fudge
Dinner
2 loaves of garlic bread
large pepperoni pizza
large pitcher of root beer
3 milky ways
entire frozen cheesecake, eaten directly from the freezer
It is funny but true, well maybe you shouldn't try 'stress diet' can you say diabetes?.
We all look for some relief to the stress in our lives.
Just a little peace, but like the old saying: “the only peace we find in this world is that glorious moment when everybody stops to reload.”
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The Title of our message for today is "So Tired of Being Tired"
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Our Scripture is taken from: Matthew 11:28-30
Turn with me to the promise of rest found in Matthew 11:28-30
Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.
[29]Take my yoke upon you.
Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle, and you will find rest for your souls.
[30] For my yoke fits perfectly, and the burden I give you is light."
Let me ask you, Is this what Jesus intended for us?
Is this the abundant life He promised his disciples?
Where is the Sabbath-rest proclaimed by the Lord?
The writer of the book of Hebrews put it this way in Hebrews 4:2:
“Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it.
For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.”
God invites us into His rest!
The question is will we enter it by faith!
I. THIS INVITATION IS FOR YOU!
Notice this is a open-wide invitation: “All who are weary and who carry heavy burdens!”
Does this describe you in any way today?
Come on be real with yourself are you carrying heavy burdens!
How sad is it, when people who are weary and weighed down in their lives don’t turn to Jesus.
What might have happened if that disturbed man who killed the innocent children in Lancaster County last year had turned to Jesus instead of his guns?
He obviously was weary and weighed down with burdens from his past, but guns were not the answer.
He may have been tormented by the sin of his youth, and angry with God about the loss of a child born pre-maturely.
But instead of turning to the only one who could help him, he buried his burdens deep within until they exploded in a violent rage.
Think of how many lives could be spared, of how so much violence and turmoil could be avoided in people’s lives if they would simply come to Jesus.
As we walk through the text we find that Jesus first invites those who are weary: This word ‘weary’ literally means those who are exhausted from their hard labor.
It describes those who collapse into bed at night – weary from the day’s trials.
There are all kinds of weariness we can experience in this world:
A. Emotional Weariness:
Some of us lack peace in our lives, we worry about not having anything to worry about, we worry about our worst fears coming true, and we doubt that anything good can come into our lives!
Corrie Ten Boom once wrote: “Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrows, it empties today of strength!”
It’s like the woman who worried for 40 years that she might die of cancer.
She finally died of pneumonia at age 70, but she had wasted 40 years of her life worrying about the wrong thing!
There really are emotional stresses that wear us down!
B. Physical exhaustion
There are also physical stresses that exhaust us!
Not enough sleep, too little exercise, poor nutrition, too much noise and hurrying about, trying to fit 2 or 3 things into the same space of time.
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