{"id":38422,"date":"2025-12-04T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38422"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:16:11","slug":"251205-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251205-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ Will Give You Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251205_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251205_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/251205_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How does a person get relief from shame, embarrassment, anger? In Matthew 11:28-29 (NCV) Jesus said, \u201c<strong>Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Accept my teachings and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you will find rest for your lives<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can see you shaking your head. \u201cI\u2019ve tried that. I\u2019ve read the Bible, I\u2019ve sat on the pew, but I\u2019ve never received relief.\u201d Could it be you went to religion and you didn\u2019t go to God? Could it be you went to a church, but never saw Christ? \u201cCome to me\u201d the verse reads. Jesus is the solution for weariness of soul. Go to him. Admit you have soul secrets you\u2019ve never dealt with. He already knows what they are. Go to him! He\u2019s just waiting for you to ask him to help.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38419\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"When God Whispers Your Name\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=172dc46a5c&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D172dc46a5c%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764831713250000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Eh-siJja1As2hG6tCb13M\"><em>When God Whispers Your Name<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a person get relief from shame, embarrassment, anger? In Matthew 11:28-29 (NCV) Jesus said, \u201cCome to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Accept my teachings and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit, and you will find rest for your lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can see you shaking your head. \u201cI\u2019ve tried that. I\u2019ve read the Bible, I\u2019ve sat on the pew, but I\u2019ve never received relief.\u201d Could it be you went to religion and you didn\u2019t go to God? Could it be you went to a church, but never saw Christ? \u201cCome to me\u201d the verse reads. Jesus is the solution for weariness of soul. Go to him. Admit you have soul secrets you\u2019ve never dealt with. He already knows what they are. Go to him! He\u2019s just waiting for you to ask him to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38425,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38422\/revisions\/38425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}