{"id":201,"date":"2008-02-21T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T20:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2008-03-13T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:06:10","slug":"come-unto-me-all-ye-that-labor-and-are-heavy-laden-and-i-will-give-you-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Come Unto Me, All Ye That Labor and are Heavy Laden, and I Will Give You Rest.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&#8220;For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Have you ever really noticed the end of that verse?\u00c2\u00a0 We often quote it, but don&#8217;t often get past the first line.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I am still sitting in rather speechless awe of God.\u00c2\u00a0 He has been doing some amazing things in my heart through a lot of different circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 He has roused my heart in a greater way this year than ever before probably, to take a closer look at the heart of Christ.\u00c2\u00a0 He keeps confirming to me what He has been trying to teach my slow-learning heart.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the truth that His heart is full of compassion and love like we cannot fathom.\u00c2\u00a0 He has come to my heart in the quiet, convincing way that He always does, and gently told me that He wants to heal those old wounds that I buried without knowing it.\u00c2\u00a0 He has used so many people and circumstances to stir my heart and opened up the wells of tears that I had no idea were still deep inside my heart.\u00c2\u00a0 He released me from a spirit of fear that I carried with me in relationships &#8230; fear of hurting people, fear of losing relationships.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know it was there.\u00c2\u00a0 He gave me freedom from a deep sense of failure that I didn&#8217;t know was there.\u00c2\u00a0 And the release has entered so many, many areas of my life that I still feel stunned some days.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like having your heart put to rest in a new and beautiful way.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s got to be a little like Heaven. REST.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I am so in awe of God.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope I will never lose the reverence I feel for Him.\u00c2\u00a0 His love is different than we often realize.\u00c2\u00a0 His love is the kind that quietly and emphatically reaches our hearts in a way that we cannot doubt Him.\u00c2\u00a0 His work is a thorough work that could never be manufactured by another.\u00c2\u00a0 His grace is overwhelming.\u00c2\u00a0 His gentleness compels us to love Him.\u00c2\u00a0 His words are quiet, and they come to us when our hearts are still before Him, waiting for Him, and even when they are weeping out the unknown issues within.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0He causes us to turn away from ourselves and He speaks life into the ashes of our pain.\u00c2\u00a0 Where the light of His Spirit shines, the darkness must flee.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00c2\u00a0But it&#8217;s the way He comes that amazes me so much &#8230; People, we need to get\u00c2\u00a0a hold of God and let Him teach us how to love.\u00c2\u00a0 He is so personal.\u00c2\u00a0 How He loves each of us and understands us.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thank-you, Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got yourself a servant for life, by Your Grace alone.\u00c2\u00a0 You have shown me how little I know my own heart &#8230; how little any of us know our own hearts.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, God, let us walk humbly in your Presence.\u00c2\u00a0 Praise be to God.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/004.jpg\" alt=\"004.jpg\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Have you ever really noticed the end of that verse?\u00c2\u00a0 We often quote it, but don&#8217;t often get past the first line.\u00c2\u00a0 I am still sitting in rather speechless awe of God.\u00c2\u00a0 He has been doing some amazing things in my heart through a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}