Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Finding Rest in Jesus was written by Marvin Williams.

The restless soul is never satisfied with wealth and success.

A deceased country music icon could testify to this truth.

He had nearly 40 of his albums appear on Billboard's country music top ten charts, and just as many

number one singles. But he also had multiple marriages and spent time in prison. Even with all his achievements, he once

lamented, there's a restlessness in my soul that I've never conquered, not with motion,

marriages, or meaning. It's still there to a degree, and it'll be till the day I die. Sadly,

he could have found rest in his soul before his life ended.

Jesus invites all those, like this musician, who have become weary from toiling and

sin and its consequences, to come to him personally.

Come to me, he says.

When we receive salvation in Jesus,

he will take the burdens from us and give us rest.

The only requirements are to believe in him

and then to learn from him how to live the abundant life he provides.

Taking on the yoke of Jesus' discipleship results in our finding rest for our souls.

When we come to Jesus, he doesn't abbreviate our accountability to God. He gives peace to our restless

souls by providing us a new and less burdensome way to live in him. He gives us true rest.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Matthew

11, verses 28 through 30.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened

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