July 7, 2019
July 16, 2019
Matthew 11:28-30 New International Version (NIV)
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 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. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Psalm 55:22 New International Version (NIV)
22 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
1 Peter 5:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].
1 Corinthians 15:9-10 NIV
“For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”
Revelation 1:9-10 NIV
“I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,”
I want to return to the scripture we talked about last week because I feel like God isn’t finished with it quite yet. It has been ruminating through my mind and spirit this past weekend I feel like there is more The Holy Spirit wants to say before we move on
THE RIGHT DESTINATION
There are three powerful directives that Jesus gives us in this passage. None of them are suggestions
- Come to me
- Take My Yoke
- Learn from Me
THE APPROPRIATE DIRECTIVES
All three of these indicate that we have a choice to make. A participation in the obtaining of the rest that Jesus promises us.
- COME…. The same word used when Jesus invited the disciples to follow Him and he would transform them (and I will make you fishers of men)
- TAKE… To take upon oneself and carry, to receive, to accept (if a man will come after me let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me)
- LEARN…. To Learn by use and practice.
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