Refreshment
Are you running at a pace that perhaps God Didn’t call you to?
Jesus brings rest. He invites us to lay our burdens down at His feet and to savor the sweetness of His presence. He calls us to relationship, communion, & fellowship with Him. In the Lord’s presence, we experience satisfaction. We receive refreshment & hope. We experience a deeply needed exhale, an emptying of ourselves that we may breathe in the replenishing oxygen of Jesus Himself.
Do you ever find yourself running at a pace that perhaps God didn’t call you to? I recently took some time in my morning with God to just rest in His presence & it provided such nourishment for my soul. It was a refreshment I didn’t even know I needed. Despite being in a slower season work-wise & family-wise, I’ve been in a bit of a frenzied state spiritually - interceding for more people more frequently, studying my Bible more religiously, reading more & more spiritual books, trying to write, creating more, dreaming about ministry. I believe that all of these disciplines are beautiful things that can really bless us, but they must be done in the right posture. I was operating from a place of earning & doing, rather than being. I was forgetting to refill myself with Jesus.
Jesus invites us into a relationship with Him & promises us a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light (Matthew 11:28-30). A yoke is a wooden bar that two animals, such as oxen, would wear to pull or carry heavy loads. While oxen must carry the weight of their load equally, Jesus willingly takes it all if we just lay it down & surrender it to Him. He takes all our weariness & carries all our burdens.
What have you been carrying that you shouldn’t be? In what moments or areas is God calling you to be still so that you can receive rest & a refill from His presence? Has God been beckoning you into silence? Are you leaving enough space in your prayers for God to speak new life over you?
Jesus called me back to the simple things in that morning of rest with Him. As I just sat before Him in silence, He reminded me that I don’t have to do things in my own strength. I don’t have to save the world because my Savior already did. When I am weary, Jesus Christ promises me His strength. In fact, in our weakness is when His strength is most perfected & complete in us (II Corinthians 12:9-10). All Jesus requires is that we come.
Matthew 11:28-30
Come to Me, all you who labor 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.