“Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 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. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” – Matthew 11:28-30
“When you give weight to something, you are crowning it with glory and honour. When you make something light, you are cursing it. The more glory conscious you are, the more sickness will go away. Magnify the Lord for your sake; because when God is very big in your life, all problems become very small.”
Rest – in Biblical terms – refers to healing, the act of sitting down.
For Hebrews 4:10 (NIV) says, “For anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.”
And Psalm 16:8-9 (KJV) quotes, “I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.”
When Jesus says, “Come to Me,” the kind of rest that Jesus is referring to, is a rest that comes from inside a person. Many a time, man believes that sleep is a form of rest. But one can acquire rest equivalent to ten hours of sleep by having less than half the amount of sleep. That kind of rest can only come from the One up above.
Rest itself will take residence in our inner being. No matter what life hands us, our spirits will be at rest because we are yoked with Christ. This is an amazing promise. Christ’s rest is not a rest from work, but in work.
All through the Bible, God’s salvation carries with it a promise of rest here and now. It isn’t a lack of labour that He desires for His children, but a rest within the labours of life. Rest in the fact that He will provide, He will protect, He will enable and He will never forsake His children.
Hence, know that rest is good (Genesis 49:15).
I lie down and sleep;
I wake again, for the LORD sustains me.
I am not afraid of ten thousands of people,
Who have set themselves against me all around.- Psalm 3:5-6
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