Rest in Jesus
Come to Jesus and Get Rest
The fact that the world around us is falling apart is no news and surprise to God. When you watch the news and see the chaos in the world and in individual lives including ours, you may conclude that God does not care. If He is God, how could He allow such wickedness and calamities to happen? Those who do not know God arrive at such conclusions and even those who do know him sometimes wander off asking similar questions.
Do you have enough trouble in your life and in the lives of people around you? What we need is true rest and it comes to us and to anyone else by revelation of the Father through his Son. Listen to Jesus:
27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:27-30
Do you get the point? Stop running away and come to Jesus. Everything around us is saying go get the loan, education, a new job, new car, a new wife or husband, a new home, a new these or that; then you will get rest. Wrong and wrong again and again.
Do you want rest? Ask God today to reveal Himself to you. May be you have never asked before, ask now and continue to ask. Let’s learn from Jesus what it means to let go and trust our lives in the hands of the Father. Jesus has made the yoke easy and the burden light by carrying all of it to the cross and dying on our behalf.
Every rest is found in the cross of Christ and in His resurrection which validated it. Run to the cross every time. Every restlessness is an indication of lack of trust in God and in his full provision in Christ. Restlessness in me indicates that I am making myself to be a god and trusting in what I can do and achieve to come to rest. The Cross says, I have done everything and all you can do is believe and trust in Jesus for rest forever.
We rightly think that the finished work of Jesus on the cross is enough to make us right with God and grant us entrance to heaven to live forever. But why do we think that the cross is not sufficient for us to live daily on this side of eternity? Good works is not enough neither for heaven or here and now. It is good to work head but it is not enough to grant us the rest we need that comes from the cross of Christ. We need God's grace at all times and we must depend on Him.
Come to Jesus today and find forgiveness for your sins and anxieties and get rest. Help a family member, co-worker, friend, stranger and etc. to come to Jesus to get rest. Pray for God’s revelation to you and all.
Lord, show me who you are and help me to learn and understand your grace and total dependence and trust in you. Forgive all my sins of anxiety and worry. Amen.
Rest in Jesus on this Memorial Day as we remember those who have sacrificed their lives for others. May the Lord comfort all these families.
The fact that the world around us is falling apart is no news and surprise to God. When you watch the news and see the chaos in the world and in individual lives including ours, you may conclude that God does not care. If He is God, how could He allow such wickedness and calamities to happen? Those who do not know God arrive at such conclusions and even those who do know him sometimes wander off asking similar questions.
Do you have enough trouble in your life and in the lives of people around you? What we need is true rest and it comes to us and to anyone else by revelation of the Father through his Son. Listen to Jesus:
27 All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:27-30
Do you get the point? Stop running away and come to Jesus. Everything around us is saying go get the loan, education, a new job, new car, a new wife or husband, a new home, a new these or that; then you will get rest. Wrong and wrong again and again.
Do you want rest? Ask God today to reveal Himself to you. May be you have never asked before, ask now and continue to ask. Let’s learn from Jesus what it means to let go and trust our lives in the hands of the Father. Jesus has made the yoke easy and the burden light by carrying all of it to the cross and dying on our behalf.
Every rest is found in the cross of Christ and in His resurrection which validated it. Run to the cross every time. Every restlessness is an indication of lack of trust in God and in his full provision in Christ. Restlessness in me indicates that I am making myself to be a god and trusting in what I can do and achieve to come to rest. The Cross says, I have done everything and all you can do is believe and trust in Jesus for rest forever.
We rightly think that the finished work of Jesus on the cross is enough to make us right with God and grant us entrance to heaven to live forever. But why do we think that the cross is not sufficient for us to live daily on this side of eternity? Good works is not enough neither for heaven or here and now. It is good to work head but it is not enough to grant us the rest we need that comes from the cross of Christ. We need God's grace at all times and we must depend on Him.
Come to Jesus today and find forgiveness for your sins and anxieties and get rest. Help a family member, co-worker, friend, stranger and etc. to come to Jesus to get rest. Pray for God’s revelation to you and all.
Lord, show me who you are and help me to learn and understand your grace and total dependence and trust in you. Forgive all my sins of anxiety and worry. Amen.
Rest in Jesus on this Memorial Day as we remember those who have sacrificed their lives for others. May the Lord comfort all these families.
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