Come to Me…..
………and I will give you rest.
(Matthew 11:28)
This has been my verse this week. The word “rest” means SO many things. Yesterday I was out shopping and trying on bathing suits. GROSS! On the verge of tears…this verse came into my mind… Rest for me that day was not dwelling on negative thoughts. Rest was patience and contentment. Rest from comparing myself to others or to the person I have in my mind that after some miraculous weightloss I will look like. I’ve never seen this woman before, mind you… but it’s like I know she’s under there somewhere. I know… I’m sort of being ridiculous tonight. But that was rest for me yesterday.. today it’s just rest from trying so hard to be and do what I THINK God wants me to be and do. Sometimes I take on WAY more than I should. I focus SO MUCH on “doing the right things’… that I forget to just rest in this blessed life. Rest in the fact that the Lord is Mighty… that the Lord has His hand on my family. He is working…and He’s perfecting His work. Do you ever forget that? Everyday the Lord is working in your Life! I forget that. I see most days as just a day. But somehow He makes all things new in every one of our days. I could be completely broken one day and have lost it like I was on Tuesday…but God used that to teach me humility, and to be weak… Rest that day was me on the floor hands outstretched collecting his grace one drop at a time as if it were drizzling from heaven. Today I was listening to a new praise Cd and I know I looked like a fruit-loop driving around… but I couldn’t help but drive with one hand and hold my other up in praise of him…..today Rest was sitting in His awesome mighty lap and looking down at His creation in AWE! He is the Lord our God…not to sound childish…but HE’s SOOO BIG! I can’t believe He cares about me. Today was resting in His Might.
All this to say… when we come to Him with our heavy hearts, with our boggled minds, with our broken spirits, with our busy hands, with our blistered feet, with our bruises, our scrapes, our poor eyesight, our deaf ears….He provides the rest we need. I picked Will up from school on Wednesday and he wanted me to immediately look in his book-bag and “see all I did today, Mommy!” There was a picture of a bed with a little girl asleep…Will preceded to tell me that this was the story of how Jesus healed a little girl. These were Will’s words to the best of my memory….
“Mommy, the little girl’s mommy was so sad… she couldn’t get her little girl to wake up. She kept trying and trying… so she ran out to Jesus and asked Him to help her feel better. And Jesus came in and said that she was just asleep and woke her up. Then He put her back to bed again. I bet He did songs and stories with her too..to help her go to sleep.”
Every night at bedtime since I can remember we always read a book with Will and then he wants someone to sing him a few songs before he goes to sleep. I couldn’t help but get teary eyed after he made that statement about Jesus putting the little girl back to bed. Instantly the Lord brought this verse to my mind. I was able to tell Will that our sweet Savior DOES sing us songs… but He does more than just sing……..He rejoices over us with them.
“For the Lord your God is living among you.
He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness.
With his love, he will calm all your fears.
He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
Zephaniah 3:17
So this is “the recap of my week” blog. I’ve had some hard days this week… I’ve had some good days….but praise the Lord that HE is here….living among me….my mighty savior… and He delights in me… and with His love He calms my fears.. … and with something so dear and personal to me…music….My savior… rejoices over me with joyful songs. Who can’t find rest in that! What are you weary from? Stop, please. Stop and rest in Him…. Let Him put those fears, disappointments, and heartaches to bed ……..and receive all that He wants to give. You are His sweet princess…YOU are His delight.
