Finding Rest Unto Your Souls

FINDING REST UNTO YOUR SOULS MATTHEW 11:28-30 But Jesus said, you want to find rest? Put on the yoke. Keep the bull out of your life. The oxen carried a yoke that was meant to guide them down the field of life. You shall find rest unto your soul. Put your will undermine. Now, friend, listen to me—It is not rest from service, it is rest in service. It is a strange rest that comes by putting on the yoke rather than putting it off. Now, every now and then some people have the idea they're going to retire. God never called a man to retire. Surely, you need rest for your body and as we get older, we cannot do physically what we use to do but it does not mean we drop out, we sit, soak and sour. The minute you put off the yoke, at that moment, you take up the burden. When you put off the yoke you lay on the burden. What Jesus is saying is take my yoke upon you, get into this thing of service, and you will find rest while you work, rest while you serve. The most miserable people on this earth are the invalid rich who are trying to find peace of heart and if you'll go to the pleasure places of this world and look in the faces of those people who have come there for happiness and joy and peace you'll find the most, weary, looking group of people you've ever found in your life. What Jesus is saying is this: the secret of the rest that He gives is that you find yourself by losing yourself. We want release from all authority, it is not until you put on the yoke of Christ that you will find rest. When you say Jesus Christ is Lord, then you can stand fast in the liberty wherewith He has made you free. Surrender, to Christ's loving yoke and you will experience His perfect rest.