The Resoration of Rest

One of the blessings of our salvation is the restoration of rest. There is, of course, a future eternal rest, but there is also a present tense rest for us to enjoy. Christ told the multitudes, "Come unto Me, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me." In a burdened, restless, dissatisfied world, we should stand out as those who are at rest.
The Holy Spirit defined that rest for us in Hebrews 8: He that has ceased from his own labor just as God completely rested from the work of creation; he it is who has found the rest intended for him by His Savior.
Now the difficult thing to accept is that I enter into that rest by laboring zealously. The key is that it is not my own labor, but it is accomplished through Christ. The reason I grow weary in well-doing, tired of Christian service, is that I am constantly trying to do God's work in my own strength. The only way to rest and labor at the same time is by faith and obedience. I must be in the Word of God--my spiritual food--for it reveals to me what I am and what I need to do. To fully understand myself, I must understand God's truth. I must see myself as God sees me. I must also come to Him boldly in prayer in order to obtain help in time of need--which, if I'm honest, is all the time. If I am in the Word, I will fully understand as the Spirit leads me that the victorious Christian life is totally impossible outside of total submission to Him and a complete reliance on His grace and mercy through prayer. That is true rest. That is realizing--embracing--the truth that His strength is made mature in weakness; that when I am weak, then--and only then--am I strong. That without Him I can do absolutely zero. Nada. Nothing. Resting in Him, "I can do all things through Christ, who is my strength."
Never go into the field without being yoked to your Master--the omnipotent Creator-God of the universe.