Come to Me: Finding Rest Amid Life's Burdens

``Do you know how much better life could be if we would say yes to this? So let me just make it real clear. If I were making a marketing push for it, here's what I would do. I would say, let me tell you the upgrade. You can take your exhaustion and trade it for his rest. Does that interest anyone? All of your fatigue, all the being tired and tired of being tired and things are crazy and wearing busyness like a badge and anytime we feel overwhelmed, making you feel like, well, at least I'm needed and exhausted means that I must be successful. No. No. No. No. Trading all of that for his rest. Deep rest in the soul. [00:59:23] (50 seconds)  #TradeExhaustionForRest

He's not demanding it. He's not commanding it. He's inviting us. He says come to me. Now I'm glad he uses those three words and not three other words that he could use. I mean, could say, go clean up. He could say fix your life. He could say, please try harder. But he doesn't. He says, come to me. And notice how personal that is. He doesn't say perform more, do better. No. He says he's he's going to imply, lay down your doing. Take all the doing you've been doing and lay that down and come to me. [00:41:20] (47 seconds)  #LayDownTheDoing

So Jesus comes along with this passage that I believe has the power and the potential to change our lives. That's not me. That's not some hyperbolic statement that a pastor would say. I really believe that your life could change. That my life could change today. Sitting in the seat that we are sitting in. Now, the bad news is all the crazy around us is not going to change. But this passage, these statements from Jesus, this good news from Jesus has the potential to allow us to let go of the weight that we're carrying and partner up with him. [00:39:18] (40 seconds)  #GoodNewsChangesLives

But he's saying, what I wanna give you is something that is better than a nap. It's better than a little relief. It's actually rest for your soul. I I In fact, I believe that what he wants to give us is rest in the middle of the life that we're currently living. I don't know that anything about your life is gonna change. This isn't a message of we need to create more margin. We need to slow down. We need to be less busy. No. I I I think I think this rest is possible in the middle of the life that you're currently living because the chances are the demands that are in front of you, the burden that you feel on your back is not something that's going away. [00:45:04] (43 seconds)  #RestInTheMiddle