AN ORIGINAL SELAH37 PRAYER
Jesus, I come with less strength than I wish I had. Help me put down the need to appear endlessly capable. Show me what can wait, what can be shared, and where I need rest. Give me companions who carry burdens with me. Teach me a sustainable way to love and serve. Amen.
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Biblical foundation
Jesus’ invitation is for the burdened. Biblical care includes receiving help, not only giving it.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30 Read in WEB ↗He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40:29 Read in WEB ↗Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:2 Read in WEB ↗
Let one nonessential task wait and ask someone to share a necessary one.
Study the context
Isaiah 40 speaks hope to a discouraged people. Renewed strength is not a demand to ignore physical limits or symptoms of illness.
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