GOD’S WORD FOR APRIL 14 ~ ~ Matthew 11:29 ~ ~ “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.”

We are reading from Andrew Murray’s famous and beloved classic book from the late 1800’s ~ ~  “Abide in Christ.”

Come, my friend, and let us this very day commence to accept the Word of Jesus in all simplicity.  This is a distinct command: 

“Take My yoke….and learn of Me”;   “Abide in Me.”

A command has to be obeyed.  The obedient scholar asks no questions about possibilities or results;  he accepts every order in the confidence that his teacher had provided for all that is needed.  The power and the perseverance to abide in the rest and the blessing in abiding – it belongs to the Savior to see to this.

IT IS MINE TO OBEY; IT IS HIS TO PROVIDE.

Let us this day, in immediate obedience, accept the command and answer boldly, “Savior, I abide in You.  At Your bidding I take Your yoke.  I undertake the duty without delay;  I abide in You.”  Let each consciousness of failure only give new urgency to the command and teach us to listen more earnestly than ever until the Spirit again allows us to hear the voice of Jesus saying, with a love and authority that inspire both hope and obedience,

“CHILD, ABIDE IN ME.”

That Word, coming from Him, will be an end of all doubting – a divine promise of what will surely be granted.  With ever increasing simplicity, its meaning will be interpreted.  Abiding in Jesus is nothing but the giving up of oneself to be ruled, taught and led, and so resting in the arms of Everlasting Love.

Blessed rest, the fruit, the foretaste and the fellowship of God’s own rest, found by those who come to Jesus to abide in Him!  It is the peace of God, the great calm of the eternal world, that passes all understanding and that keeps the heart and mind (Philippians 4:7).  With this grace secured, we have strength for every duty, courage for every struggle, a blessing in every cross, and the joy of life eternal in death itself.

Oh my Savior!  If my heart would ever doubt or fear again, as if the blessing were too great to expect or too high to attain, let me hear Your voice to quicken my faith and obedience:

“ABIDE IN ME:  TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME …YOU SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.”

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