"Your friendship with Me is changing you from the inside out. I am shaping you into the person I want you to be. Don’t fight the changes, or try to speed them up. Let Me set the pace as I create a better you. Hold My hand and walk with Me - step by step."
Showing posts with label Walking With Jesus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walking With Jesus. Show all posts
Jesus Wants You To Know...
"Your best preparation for the journey ahead is practicing My Presence each day. Tell yourself frequently: 'Jesus is with me, taking good care of me.' Visualize yourself holding onto My hand as you walk. Trust Me - your Guide - to show you the way forward as you go step by step. I have a perfect sense of direction, so don’t worry about getting lost. Relax in My Presence, and rejoice in the wonder of sharing your whole life with Me."
"For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end."
- Psalm 48:14
- "Jesus Always" by Sarah Young
Jesus Will Give You Rest
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28
Matthew 11:28
I love staying in an Airbnb. The best part? Someone else has made all the decisions for me.
The decor might not be what I’d choose, but I didn’t have to choose it. That means I automatically like it. Where should the dishes go? What is the best spot to store extra pillows? Who cares? Wherever the owner puts the coffee cups or bowls is fine with me. I usually don’t even mind the required cleanup procedures because they’re listed out, and I just need to check them off. No decision-making needed.
Decision fatigue is a thing. Emotional exhaustion is real. Sometimes I think to myself, I’m tired! only to realize I feel physically fine. It’s my brain that’s desperate for rest - spiritual rest. Relief from the weights upon my mind and soul.
I used to think of rest as stopping. As a state of zero responsibility and zero effort expended.
But those moments are rare and unpredictable. I can’t schedule a work emergency to happen at a “good time.” When my kids were little, I couldn’t know when a stomach virus would hit. And now that they’re in college, I can’t predict when a “Mom, can you talk?” text will come. I thought I’d planned out my year, only to find out my parents want to downsize their home. It’s important to me to help them.
Still, rest is possible because Jesus promises it. He said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
Thankfully, He explained how: “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11:29).
Jesus promises rest for our souls. Rest for the emotionally exhausted and stressed.
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, a “yoke” is “a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull.”
Jesus isn’t saying He’ll help us nap. He’s saying to get under His yoke with Him. He eases the emotional exhaustion from so many of life’s hard things. He removes the angst of constant decision-making because we can walk alongside Him on the path He makes clear. As Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths” .
Walking with Jesus, living life alongside Him, is rest. He gives rest to your soul in the midst of all the responsibilities of your life.
God, thank You for Your understanding of my heart and mind and the way You uniquely designed them. Help me rest under Your yoke in the knowledge that the way You lead me is the only way I want to go. In Jesus’ Name, Amen
- Dana K. White
Provided by “Proverbs 31 Ministries”
Provided by “Proverbs 31 Ministries”
