Title: Is There Any Rest for the Weary?
Text:
Matthew 11:28-30 (ESV)
28 Come to me, all 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."
Observation:
The most significant thing that we can do when life knocks us down is to accept the invitation of Jesus to come to Him. The hymn writer expressed it this way.
"Leave it there, leave it there,
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there;
If you trust and never doubt, He will surely bring you out—
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there." - - Charles Tindley
There are some burdens we don't have to bear. There is a peace we don't have to forfeit. We have a way out. The Lord issues to us a loving and caring invitation. This is an exchange that is too good to refuse.
1 Peter 5:7 (ESV)
7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
Prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I am so thankful that you are a God who has a loving and compassionate heart.
Father God, thank you for being our helper and our healer when we come to you with the troubles of this world.
Father God, I ask for the wisdom to take the upward look, and bring all of my burdens to Jesus, and to leave them with Him. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 40:31 (ESV)
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
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Matthew 4:4 (HCSB)
4 But He answered, "It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."
Psalm 2:8 (HCSB)
8 Ask of Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance and the ends of the earth Your possession.
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