Christlikeness Does Not Exempt Us From Weariness

Mat 10:25  It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

We ought, for instance, to remember this great saying in the frequent hours when we are weary.

Many of His servants have times of great exhaustion in the work and welfare of the Kingdom.

They would give much to be always at their best, and perhaps they read of others who are so.

There are those who claim never to have known weariness since they gave themselves up to Him in full surrender.

But the Lord Himself, who yielded up His life in a way that no one else has ever paralleled, never made any such claim as that.

He was so weary once that He fell fast asleep, with His head on the wooden pillow of a fishing boat.

He was so weary once, traveling to Calvary, that His cross was transferred to Simon of Cyrene.

And all this is written on the page of Scripture, not only that we may see the kind of man He was, but that those who love Him, and who seek to follow Him, might be delivered from the lure of false ideals.

It would be a wonderful thing always to feel radiant, and equal to every task the day may bring. 

Never to grow weary in our service would be to taste the joy of service in eternity. 

But our Master knew not that experience. 

There were hours when He was utterly exhausted.

And it is enough, He tells us, that we be like Him.

~George H. Morrison~