The Soul’s Resting Place

“Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.” Matthew 11:29

Has your soul found its resting place?

As I was drifting off to sleep a few nights ago, I was overwhelmed with this truth, that my soul had found its resting place.  It doesn't matter what circumstances may arise of nightmaric proportions or what disaster is bewailed.  Even then, our soul can be steady and sure upon Jesus.

Oh, may it ever and always be!

There is no doubt I have spent many a year off course, and perhaps you, too.  But I find God's Word such a precious healing balm for my soul, a lighthouse, a source of strength propelling us all.  As in His Word we are reminded, "Once again give them this message from the Lord: When a person falls, he jumps up again; when he is on the wrong road and discovers his mistake, he goes back to the fork where he made the wrong turn. But these people keep on along their evil path, even though I warn them" (Jeremiah 8:4-5).  

God lovingly reminds us that we cannot continue on the wrong road and find it connecting us to the right one.  Ezekiel 21, Matthew 23:37, and others make this same point so very clear, yet we refuse this truth, going our own way, rebelling.

Our way is not better.

His way is best—always best.

Humility, daily submission to God, resisting the devil, repentance:  This is where we find rest for our soul.

Jeremiah 6:16 calls to those still off course today, pleading, "Yet the Lord pleads with you still: Ask where the good road is, the godly paths you used to walk in, in the days of long ago. Travel there, and you will find rest for your souls. But you reply, “No, that is not the road we want!”

I don't know about you, but that is the road I want.

Goodnight, Runners.