Come ye, Rest awhile...

“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” says our Lord Jesus Christ (Mat 11:28).

Working in the city can be tiresome and extremely fast for one’s welfare. We live in times of “Speed”, “Corruption”, and “Desensitisation”. Our daily lives are filled with events, processes, experiences that move at the speed of thought. We wake, work, worry, and wonder each day, and do the same, until a week is full, even a year. Corruption is in us, around us, and with us, as we trade, train, and travel with our families, customers, and friends. Our minds, ears, and eyes continuously consume the seed of corruption without effort, and unawares.

Our world has managed to create an aggressive desensitisation mechanism against the child of God, making it difficult for us to walk the narrow road, the highway to holiness. Instead we stumble and fall, limping between opinions as the worshippers of Baal, whom Elijah asked to make a choice. We jump from the Narrow Road, onto the Wide Road that leads to destruction, and back again to the Highway of Holiness.

We are constantly in emotional anguish, having pains in our soul that we cannot explain to the next person, even the closest of persons. It is as though we are burdened with life itself, incapable of removing what is placed on our shoulders each day of our lives. We are burdened with the troubles of this world, in need of a true REST, a haven that we can say as the Psalmist, “The Lord is my ROCK, my FORTRESS, my REFUGE…”.

Our comfort is that, coming is the time when Yeshua, the King of Kings, will ride upon the clouds and save us from this world. He will take us to that REST, that eternal ROCK that endures all and where there is no burden.

Come to Resthaven and experience an offloading of your burdens, as you call on the name of the Lord, and mediate upon the sweetness of His word, as it washes and renews your mind, to prepare you for the next week, month, or year in the City.

Written by Oscar Manduku