God in his love seeks our salvation and wants us to rest from our burdens. He does not compel anyone to accept his love. In old times he looked for Adam, asking "Where are you?" (Genesis 3:9). He wept for Jerusalem, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!" (Matthew 23:37).
The same God who watched for the return of the prodigal son is watching for us and is concerned about our salvation because he is our creator, our shepherd, the savior of our souls, and the one who goes before us on our journey. He is waiting for us to come back, like the prodigal son. He wants to welcome us joyfully and restore us to the glory of our sonship, to have us feel the blessed joy of returning to him.
The righteous person lives by faith, and it is only in trust and faith and quietness that we can truly return to him.
Trust that God is able to lead you in triumphal victory and to give you peace because he is the prince of peace. He is able to save us and protect us. He will multiply our talents, strengthen us where we are weak, and remove our fears. He is with us until the very end.
To return is to repent, and to repent is to return.
When the prodigal son returned to his father he brought joy to his father's heart. When we repent, there is great joy in heaven, even to the very heart of God.
God is love. We approach him through the love of the Son, and there we find our rest. He draws us with the cords of his love (Hosea 11:4), and he demands that we love him with all our hearts, minds, and souls. It is through his love that we find relief from our burdens and solutions to our problems.
Let us seek God with all our hearts, and he will set us free from all our tiredness. He will give us peace, salvation, and solutions to all our problems ... and he will not even be annoyed with us. The cross we are carrying will be light, because Christ will carry it with us.