“You Will Find Rest For Your Souls”
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and
learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your
good pleasure.
"All
things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son
chooses to reveal him.
"Come
to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 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. For my yoke is easy and my burden is
light."
Matthew 11:25-30
What
are your personal values? Do you feel you have to keep busy to be worth
something? Does God calculate how much we are worth by how much we accomplish?
Does He reward us for living on the edge of exhaustion and not taking care of
ourselves?
God
does not want us to live like that. Not only has He released us from slavery to
sin, but also from the bondage of having to prove our worth.
Accomplishing
a lot for God may make us feel important, but what makes us important to God is
what we allow Him to accomplish in us – conforming us into the image of His
Son.
Our value is not measured by what we do for God
but
by what He has done in us.
Our Daily Bread –