Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 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. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Matthew 11:28-30

For the last week, we have been hosting our family for a trip to Kings Island, and the Mega Caverns in Louisville, and for the last three days, Patrina and I have been on a camping trip with our grandsons in Hocking Hills State Park near Logan, Ohio. Tonight, I have it easy. Patrina is on a flight to Phoenix with the boys and will return on another flight tonight. And by the end of the week, we’re both in need of some rest.

Physical rest is one thing, rest for our souls is something else, isn’t it?

In the verses above, Jesus is speaking to the weight of life, not a week full of activities. People all over the world are searching for something to fill their lives –

Nearly four hundred years ago, this search was described by French mathematician and Christian philosopher, Blaise Pascal: 

“What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.”

Pascal described what some have called the “God-shaped hole” or vacuum in the human heart. 

Think about the people in your life who may be searching for the rest they will only find in Christ.