WE ALL NEED A LITTLE REST...

Something struck me the other day as I read the title to a post of another blog I read.  The title, "MY MIND NEVER STOPS!".  Now this lady was talking about her never ending ideas on how to redecorate her home but the title spurred something in me about other areas of life.  I have found at times that my mind never stops either. I am busy with work, church, home, you name it....BUSY...as is everyone else.  Our minds never get a chance to rest, relax or take a vacation. We all are overly worked, overly entertained, or overly stimulated in some way or another. Even the very word vacation invokes thoughts of a whole other kind of work for some of us. Consequently, I believe this lack of "rest" is also the cause of so much stress, chaos, sleepless/restless nights and perhaps even sin in our lives today.

 There is an old adage that says "There's no rest for the weary".  Perhaps that is true as the devil tends to do everything in his power to make us weary, to steal our time and make us tired, overworked and overstimulated in order to cause us to give less time and put in less effort on the thing that is most important...GOD.

However, I believe there is rest for the weary and the Bible tells us all about it.  Jesus said...

COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, 

AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART: AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.

                                       Matthew 11:28-29 

We all need a rest.  Even the creator took a rest from all his work and he commanded in his word that we should do the same.  Now some believe that this means that we all should have a particular day of the week that we rest or take a break from doing anything.  That thought is very nice but in reality we never do that. I mean even on the days we set aside to not work, we still have to get up and do things...cook meals, bathe, eat, and even seek out some sort of entertainment/recreation...so technically there is no physical rest for our bodies, but how about our spirits (our minds)? In Isaiah God tells us that the Holy Ghost by speaking in other tongues is the rest and refreshing that we need for our spirit (mind).

FOR WITH STAMMERING LIPS AND ANOTHER TONGUE WILL HE SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE.

TO WHOM HE SAID, "THIS" IS THE REST WHEREWITH YE MAY CAUSE THE WEARY TO REST; AND "THIS" IS THE REFRESHING: YET THEY WOULD NOT HEAR.

                                           Isaiah 28:11-12

With stammering lips and another tongue...We truly need the Holy Ghost, evidenced by speaking in other tongues, and to spend time praying in that other tongue, to get that much needed rest for our weary minds and souls.

If you, like the lady from the blog I read, has a mind that never stops, perhaps you too need to seek out God's method of rest and refreshing.  There's no other way to get true rest without it.  You might take a vacation (or I like to call it "workation") but you will never truly get real rest or refreshing until you kneel in prayer where the power of the Holy Ghost can truly transform and refresh your spirit. Just like sleeping is essential to rest our bodies, the Holy Ghost is essential to give us rest for our soul.

NOW GO GET SOME REST!!!