AAA expected about 45 million people to travel for the recent Memorial Day weekend. Approximately 3 million people boarded planes last Friday. Newscasts reported on the long lines at airports and the busy highways. The interstate around us was busy with people heading somewhere in an RV or pulling travel trailers.
Everyone was hoping to “get away from it all” and find some peace and quiet away from the demands of everyday life. The only problem with that is that everyone must eventually return to the demands of everyday life. The peace and quiet is short-lived.
Changing the outward does little to accomplish the lasting peace and quiet we all so desperately need. Jesus said that true “rest” is only found in Him.
“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.” [Matthew 11:28-29]
The “rest” Jesus promises changes the inside. The Greek word speaks of blessed tranquility of the soul.
The rest Jesus promises is permanent. It provides an antidote to the demands of everyday life and refreshment that never runs out.
It is good to get away from it all – but it is even better to have that blessed tranquility of the soul that Jesus provides while we are in the midst of “it all.”