
Father, my daily desire is to know You more, and live You more fully and completely. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live, I live by faith in this Son off God who loved even me and gave Himself up for me. That truth being so, we are not promised ease in this life. Jesus says we will have trouble. But He has overcome the world and, as we yoke with Him to know Him, He will lead us through to live in His victorious peace that passes understanding as we rest our load in union with Him. Help us, Lord, to realize when we have changed yokes or changed position in His yoke. Empower us to enter Your rest and find strength for each challenge that comes to the load we bear in Christ. Thank You that, as we humble ourselves in Christ, we find rest for our souls that quiets the storms this life’s trouble too often brings. In Jesus, Amen.