How can God give you rest?

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How can God give you rest? You know that feeling where every day it just feels heavier and heavier, where you just get more and more work, and then when you get home there's still a lot to do. You even feel like God gave you dreams, but they just feel impossible with everything you got to do. Jesus, who is God in human form, says, "Come to me, all who are weary, and I will give you rest." So, how do we get that rest? First, remember that feeling we talked about the beginning, where sometimes it can feel like the weight of the world is on our shoulders, and we have to do all of these things and keep up to be a good person. But, what happens when we mess up? Well, here's the thing. We've all messed up at some point in our life. There's nothing that we can do to save ourselves from what is going on in the world. So, that is why Jesus is saying, "Come to me, and I will give you rest." Because he died for all of our mistakes, took on the weight of that so that we can have a relationship with God and live lighter. There's nothing we can do to earn it. Jesus is just saying, "Come to me, not figure out how to save yourself, but go to this person that will save you. Come to me." The Bible says, "For it is by grace you've been saved." Grace is getting something you don't deserve, through faith, by believing. And this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, not by anything we can do, so that no one can boast. So, there's no requirement of good things we need to do before we can deserve it, or bad things we need to not do before we get it. Jesus is just saying, "Come to me, and I will give it to you." But, how do we come to Jesus? Well, the Bible says, "If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Okay, so now that we've come to Jesus, "Come to me, and I will give you rest." How do we, part two, receive that rest? It says, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." Real quick, a yoke is a bar that they used to put on a very mature ox who'd been doing it for a while, and they'd strap in a younger ox who had no experience, so that the mature ox could guide them. So, Jesus is saying, "Lock into me, and learn from me, for I'm gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." When we submit ourselves to lock in with Jesus, saying, "I'm going to let you guide me. I'm going to let your words, the Bible, lead my life." The load is lighter because he's leading us. But, how does he actually lead us? Two ways. One, we got to read the words of the Bible. Not all of it at once, but bits and pieces to understand it. Because Jesus goes on to say, "If you love me, keep my commands." And then part two, "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever. The Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." Meaning when we come to Jesus and accept the sacrifice, submitting to his ways, we receive the advocate, the Holy Spirit, God living inside of us, guiding us. And we can submit to his will, found in his word, and walk in his ways because of the Holy Spirit. So, how can God give us rest? The burden doesn't actually get lighter, we've just locked in the one who can carry it. And our job is to let him lead us. Let me know how I can be praying for you today, friends. God bless.