How to Find Rest for Your Soul
I don’t know how it is with you, but I can be sometimes so much worried, even scared. And life makes me so much tired. The load is heavy and I feel that I don’t want to wake up. Luckily I know my Lord Yeshua, who gives me strength and courage so that I am able to stand on my feet again and go on with the life that’s given to me. I am thankful that Yeshua and His Father are in my life. The knowledge that they both take care of me and protect me helps me much in my difficult days.
Today I am going to do a Bible study that gives us something for the difficult days.
We start with Matthew 11 verse 28 and 29.
Matthew 11:28-29
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 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.
You will find rest for your soul if you go to Yeshua and learn from Him. That’s good, very good.
But what we suppose to learn from Him? We need to know this.
Matthew 9:36
Seeing the people, Yeshua felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd.
This is the first lesson. We need a shepherd. We’re not able to know what is good for us or what’s bad for us. We don’t know which way to go. And we have many strong enemies. Yeshua is our shepherd.
We can read that in John chapter 10 verse 11
John 10:11
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
Without obedience it is very hard for the shepherd to protect his sheep and to lead them. So this is the second lesson. We have to do what Yeshua tells us to do. Else He can’t help you.
Deuteronomy 32:46-47
He said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life.
Obedience to Yahweh . Protects your life.
If a sheep doesn’t follow the voice of the shepherd, it will get lost. Yeshua is a good shepherd and will search for his sheep. But the sheep is a while unprotected and all kind of dangers are there. Follow the voice of the shepherd in every situation, don’t follow your heart. Because the heart is deceitful.
Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?
We are tired because we live in difficult times. We are tired because we believe lies. We are tired because we follow the will of wicked people. We are confused. What is truth in these days? We’re enslaved and are just busy to survive. The skills to live, we never learned.
2 Timothy 3:1-7
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Yahweh , holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Luke 11:46
But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
Yeshua was warning for the spiritual leaders and the lawyers. But it can be every person with authority over you. They do as if they are helping you, but in real they help themselves. They don’t help you to become a strong Christian. They make you depending on them instead. Avoid this kind of people. That is what the bible says.
And in Luke chapter 21 verse 34 till 36 we get another advice.
Luke 21:34-36
“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap; for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth. But keep on the alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
The day that here is talked about is the day that Yeshua comes back. Be on guard and pray. Because we need strength to escape worries and the consequences of worries. And we need also strength not to get addicted by alcohol, drugs or something else that helps us to forget our circumstances. Only with Yahweh ’s strength we can overcome this all. If we do this, we will be ready when Yeshua comes back. And we will be free from worries and tiredness.
We can read this in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31.
Isaiah 40:31
Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
This is what we really need. That we can fly above our difficult circumstances. We will move and get not tired. Because we are not in the storm, but we are carried above the storm. The storm will not have negative effect on us. And Yahweh refills our strength so that we can push forward on important moments. And we are aware that Yahweh takes care of us. So that we don’t have to worry.
I end with some words from Matthew chapter 6.
Matthew 6:25
“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:32-33
For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
The things that are added to us are the basic needs like food, a place to sleep, clothes and a good health.
Put your focus on Yahweh ’s Kingdom and Yahweh ’s righteousness. Do His will. Listen to Yeshua. Pray for strength while you wait for Yeshua to come back. This way you will find rest for your soul.