Life often demands that you keep going even when you are tired.
When you are burdened with grief, you still have to go to work.
When you are battling anxiety, someone still has to do the dishes.
When you are restless to go but must stay right where you are.
“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it” Matthew 11:28 MSG
Jesus invites us to walk with Him, work with Him, and watch how He lives in the fullness of God’s love every day while bearing a great burden.
Your world may be dripping with unmet expectations, foundation-shaking experiences, and unbearable obligations.
Or it may be boring and frustrating with endless monotony.
Whatever is happening around you, Jesus wants to walk with you through it.
Lean on His strength and let Him love you right where you are.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20 NIV
Your life as a Jesus follower is not about what you are capable of doing, it’s about what Jesus is capable of doing through you.
Your body is His to use, your mind is His to fill, your heart is His to heal.
His mission is your mission, His vision is your vision, His power is your power.
This life is no longer yours, it is His life lived through you.
I have learned that Jesus will take all the life you are “able” to give Him and live through it.
My friend, surrender all you can today, then all you can tomorrow.
Jesus will receive it with joyous love.
He will embrace it with strong arms of grace.
He will take you to places of faith you couldn’t have even imagined the first moment that you surrendered your life and chose to live by faith in the Son of God.
You have more life now than you did then.
Today is a good day to surrender all the life you have to Jesus… again.
Unless you have never done this, in that case, today is the perfect day to surrender your whole life to Jesus for the first time.
Are you living by faith in the Son of God or faith in yourself?
What do you have to surrender?
How does the Son of God want to live through you today?
”Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:3 NIV
When you wake up tired.
When you are facing the day wondering how you are going to get through it.
When you feel like you have nothing left to give.
That is when Jesus said you are blessed.
Why? Because when you know you have nothing, you are ready to receive God’s everything.
Because you are covered by grace.
Life with Jesus isn’t about how much you have or how much you can do.
It is about coming to Him with empty hands and letting Him fill them with His love, mercy, strength and power.
My prayer for you, dear friend, is that you let go of trying to be strong enough and embrace the grace available to those who know they have nothing without God.
Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin.So now every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit!
– Romans 8:3-4 The Passion Translation
Because of Jesus, we are free to live.
Free to live loved.
Free to know love.
Free to love.
Not because we work really hard to deserve it.
Not because we are strong enough to do everything perfectly.
But because He gave Himself for us.
We are free to live, not according to the strength of our flesh, but according to the strength of God’s love.
All that God requires of us has been satisfied in Jesus.
And Jesus is satisfied to live with us, love through us, forgive us, and empower us to live in the full freedom of His finished work.
May the dynamic power of the Spirit of God within you fill you with overflowing joy and an uncompromising desire to celebrate this truth all day long.