Rest For The Soul. Really?

Been wrestling with this since my last post a few days ago…

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.”

Rest for our souls? Really? How do we experience it, and, what might that actually mean?

I’d love for it to mean…

• freedom from every fear
• the supply of every need we might have
• the fulfillment of every good desire

But, HOW Jesus? I don’t fully “get it,” but I do want to!

Could it be the “HOW Jesus?” is blocking me from fully “getting it?”

Perhaps what I really want is to be in control. Then I can just order my own version of rest with ‘the formula.’ “I’d rather just hold it for myself–as opposed to being dependent upon you for it–if I’m being really honest, Jesus.”

Wait. Is the only way to “get it” participation in the invitation to “Come To Jesus”? Could it be entire surrender to Christ is the “HOW Jesus?” of perfect rest?

Is that “getting it?”: giving up one’s whole life to Him, for him alone to rule and order?

Sometimes I think I’d rather have some kind of impersonal [scientific, theological, or philosophical] information from Jesus, rather than rest from Jesus’ very own presence in my life; doesn’t HE control that and Not Me!?

“We don’t live our lives by information; we live them in relationships in the context of a personal God who cannot be reduced to formula or definition.” –Eugene Peterson

So, enduring rest for the soul ["and fully getting it"] can only be found in enduring nearness to Christ.

We will know it only as we continually draw nearer to Him!