How slow we are to learn that victory or success like salvation, lies alone with the Lord. True, we may go about life in a spirit of goodwill and yet so often still miss the point. We may go about doing good, trying our best to "raise the dead" and to "give life" without realizing that we may be doing it all with the wrong spirit. Instead of doing everything in a spirit of true humility, complete obedience and reliance on God, we go about our many good works with the cloak of pride and the spirit of control. In this way, instead of bringing about a kingdom of peace and justice, we on the one hand, oppress one another with our own ideas of what is good and right and life giving, and on the other, find our labour in vain. But this God of Love and justice sees it all and He who hears the cries and agony of every heart comes and delivers all who put their trust in Him and are ready to do His will. We have to remember it is the Lord alone who can revive those who have long been dead. God alone gives life.

The Gospel text takes on the same note. He invites us to come to Him, those of us who are heavy laden and He will give us rest. For truly it is only when we finally learn to live by His ways that we can enter rest and bring about the kingdom of peace, love and justice - the kingdom where the lion and the lamb can lie down side by side.