Wisdom for Wednesday
Grab a cup of coffee and sit with me for a few minutes. Are you weary? Heavy laden? Do you labor and desire rest? I do. I desire rest, deep -relax the muscles of my mind and body rest. In January, I took the challenge from friend and fellow blogger, Selena Campbell and chose a word for the year. My word? Rest.
The year is winding down. The trees have shed the glory of autumn, winter knocks at the door and I am finally studying scriptures on rest, not that God hasn’t been plunking down it in front of me every direction I turn. Whew! It feels good to confess that I haven’t done my part. For the whole year, this scripture keeps coming up over and over. Has that ever happened to you? You hear something on the radio in a song? You open the devotional you left in the family room and there that something is again? You read a blog and BAM, there it is again? On to the Scripture!
28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will [a]ease and relieve and [b]refresh [c]your souls.]
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest ([d]relief and ease and refreshment and [e]recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.(A)
30 For My yoke is wholesome (useful, [f]good—not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.- Matthew 11: 28-30
After this scripture crossed my path a few hundred times, I copied it by hand and studied it. I underlined key words and made a chart.
My Action
1. Come
2. Learn of Jesus
3. Take His yoke on me
His Action
1. Cause me to rest
2. Ease, relieve, refresh, my soul
1. Cause me to rest
2. Ease, relieve, refresh, my soul
Outcome: I will find rest, relief, ease, refreshment, recreation, and blessed quiet for my soul (mind, will and emotions)
His attributes:
Gentle (meek) in heart
Humble (lowly) in heart
Yoke is….
Wholesome (useful, good)
Comfortable, gracious, pleasant
light, easy to be borne
What a relief. My job? To take the comfortable, gracious, pleasant, easy to be borne, yoke. Learn of Him. He is gentle. Humble. He is not harsh, hard sharp or pressing. He will carry the heavy side of the yoke. I am the weak oxen, He knows. Rest. Relief. Refreshment. Recreation. Blessed quiet for my soul.
*Series on Thankfulness in Adoption back on Friday!
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