““Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 CSB
Read: Psalms 55:22, Psalm 73:26
A Devotional about God’s Love
I want to tell you a story about a sweet Mullet Haired boy that will change your life.
I met him years ago when I was volunteering at a children’s church. I still remember his bright brown eyes and his huge smile that stretched from ear to ear. The way his curls would bounce behind his mullet-style haircut as he moved across the room.
When he came in, he had a very unique walk. His left leg would not bend. He seemed like he really enjoyed class. But everywhere he moved he moved with a limp, raising his shoulders as if he was using his shoulders to help lift his body. With every step he took he made a small grunt.
At the end of service, his grandfather came and picked him up. That is when I saw his grandfather was fitted with a leg-length brace which made it impossible for him to bend his knee. With Every step the older gentleman took he lifted his shoulders, and as he did so, he let out a small grunt.
The little boy turned around and smiled at me as he waved goodbye. Then he proceeded to walk in unison with his grandfather. Step by step.
Humans are given the beautiful ability to learn from the examples of others. However, more often than not, those who were designed to teach us about God’s love demonstrated it with the limp that they learned from generation to generation.
Leaving us with a limited understanding of what it really means to be loved by God Which makes it impossible for us to rest.
Have you ever heard the song, What’s Love Got to Do with It by Tina Turner? The lyrics are about separating love from someone’s ability to be trusted.
Sometimes that is our view of Christ’s love. We know that he loves us. But it’s easier to see his love as part of a recipe that we need to add to, in order to make complete.
How to Rest in God
Allow Jesus to be your safety net, when you feel like your falling.
I want you to know today that if you have the love of God, you have everything that you need. God’s love is the catalyst behind what he does and why He does what He does
He gave us Jesus because he loves us. He gives us his discipline, which gives us guidance so that we don’t have to live this life without help, because he loves us. He gives us his grace because he loves us. He gives us his joy because he loves us.
We can rest today, in the love of God which makes us complete. It is the strongest foundation that we can build our life upon.
Even if we don’t see it in the example of others, we can see it in His work, in our lives.
As you read the Bible you’re going to see people, whose crooked lives were set straight because of the love of God.
As we rest in his love, we know that we have everything that we need. We can go through the hardest of times knowing that the love of God means He will never leave us. Every broken heart will be mended. We can raise our family with wisdom, assured, His Spirit will guide us.
What’s love got to do with it? Well, when it comes to Jesus, it has everything. Friend, I don’t know what you’re up against today, but I do know that our Savior is big enough to carry you through. You can Rest.
Prayer: Help me to rest in you in everything I do. In Jesus’ Name Amen.