Raise Your Hand If You’re Exhausted and Need Rest

Getting Rest While We’re Still Busy?

So let this sink in: Jesus promises us rest while we are busy! Seriously, take a look at Matthew 11:28-30. (“Take my yoke upon you . . . and you will find rest for your souls.”) A yoke is fastened onto a horse or oxen so they can plow the field in the heat of the day! Jesus doesn’t say “Take off the yoke and head back to the barn” to find rest. No, the promise is that we can find rest for our souls—we can feel that sense of peace, and rightness, and a light burden—while we are in the middle of our normal lives.

What kind of yoke have we been wearing?