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Come Unto Me
When I want to look up to someone who’s learned what it means to sit at the feet of Jesus, I don’t look up to the famous, the hyper-achievers. I look down upon humble, broken believers who have discovered, in their deficiencies and limitations, the Spirit of the God who fills them with the fullness of grace, the One who embodies Sabbath rest….
Come unto me, all who labor under the heavy burden of trying to justify your existence by outperforming everyone else, and I will be your Sabbath rest. I will give you the peace that passes understanding, the peace of knowing that, in me, your warfare is ended, your iniquity is pardoned, and you have received from the Lord’s hand a doubling of grace for all your sins (Isaiah 40:2).
Come unto me, all who bear the heavy load of trying to live up to the bigger, better, bolder demands of a society that defines self-worth by accomplishments, and I will be your Sabbath rest. I will show you that the meek shall inherit the earth, the last shall be first, and the humble shall be exalted.
Come unto me, all who feel trapped on the shores of the Red Sea, who think their lives are at an end, who see no way out, and I will be your Sabbath rest. I will open a way through the sea, I will love you back into hope again, and I will show you that no one is more precious and important to me than you.
Come unto me, all you anonymous saints, the forgotten ones who’ve slipped through the cracks in the world, who feel invisible, and I will be your Sabbath rest. For I know you by name, have placed my name upon you, and pray for you by name at the throne of my Father.
Come unto me, high and low, popular and unpopular, educated and uneducated, and I will be your Sabbath rest. I am hidden yet fully present in the world. I am glorious yet lowly in heart. And in my heart there is more than enough room for the world.
Write your own words about how Jesus is calling you to come unto him right now. For example, “Come unto me, you who are weary from long hours at work…you who feel overlooked…you who are grieving in silence…and I will be your Sabbath rest.”
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Do you ever feel you’re the only one in the room without the impressive degree, the high-profile workday, the great calling? Yet God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary work. He may very well be hiding in your mundane commute, the late-night feeding, even that hundredth load of laundry you just did. May this week-long devotional remind you that God is in the most inglorious places—and uses the people there to change the world.
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