Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - My Soul is Satisfied - Full and Perfect Rest

Alisa B.
Jul 10
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Day 6: Full and perfect rest

Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you

This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls (Jeremiah 6:16).

Jesus said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matthew 11:28-29 – NKJV).

There is full and perfect rest in Jesus for every soul. This rest is a holy quietness in Him. It is freedom from all petulance, murmuring, or agitation. Christ erases sin (the seat of unrest) from the soul and establishes there His own righteousness, the work of which shall be peace, and the effect, “quietness and assurance for ever” (Isaiah 32:17 - KJV)

Water may be disturbed by something working in its depths, or it may be agitated by some exterior force. The water will not reflect your image if it is troubled, neither does an agitated soul reflect the image of Jesus.

Doubts are destructive of rest. Faith in the promises of God brings rest. The world may frown upon you; may speak ill of you; riches may flee away and poverty stare you in the face like an angry wolf; friends may forsake you; saints may misunderstand you; but faith in the promise, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”(Hebrews 13:5 - KJV), will keep the soul sweetly at rest.

If it were man that gave rest, then man could destroy rest. If it were riches that gave rest, then poverty would bring unrest. If it were circumstances that gave rest, then circumstances could destroy rest. If it were this world that gave rest in any sense, it could in some sense disturb rest.

But it is Jesus who gives rest to the heart [of the follower of Christ]; and there is naught on earth that can destroy that rest. How sweet to trust fully in God and be at rest! Oh, the completeness of perfect rest in God!

~ Charles E. Orr ~

There is a place of quiet rest,

Near to the heart of God;

A place where sin cannot molest,

Near to the heart of God.

Refrain:

O Jesus, blest Redeemer,

Sent from the heart of God;

Hold us, who wait before Thee,

Near to the heart of God.

There is a place of comfort sweet,

Near to the heart of God;