“I Will Give You Rest”

“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.”

Matthew 11:28-30

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Matthew 12:1-8

If you have ever delivered newspapers you know that you really only get one break from morning papers, Christmas day. That’s because most are delivered on Christmas Eve.

As your years increase you will come to appreciate Christmas for many reasons, but we always remember getting Christmas Day off. It is truly a day of rest.

We all come under the weight of a law which can never be fulfilled, but with Jesus as our Savior, we find rest and forgiveness. Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

In a world that is too much for us to bear alone, Christ has come to bring us into a relationship with Him and give us rest.

Our soul finds rest when it rests in God.

Our Daily Bread – December 17, 2015