You Can Be Free From Your SELF: The Grace of Soul Transformation

by David Alsobrook

In Matthew 11:28-30 Christ refers to both kinds of rest. “Given rest” is experienced when one simply comes to Jesus. “Found rest” is experienced after taking His yoke, His rule, over one’s life and learning Christ within the new state. There are two invitations in that passage. The first one is to come to Christ and receive the rest He gives. It is temporary in nature. The second invitation is to “take [His] yoke upon” your life where one finds rest within his or her soul. The rest the believer has labored to enter is too delightful to disturb with worry or hurry. Nor does a transformed believer initiate anything on his own. He or she waits for inner prompting from the Spirit. “For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His” (Heb. 4:10 NASB). The Transforming Power of Light