I Say “I’m Too Tired”

I Say “I’m too tired”

Exodus 18v18 (BSB)
“Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you.  You cannot handle it alone.”

There may be over-doing even in well-doing.  Wisdom is profitable to direct, that we may neither content ourselves with less than our duty, nor task ourselves beyond our strength. 

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible

Psalm 6v6 (BSB)
“I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.”

Psalm 38v8 (NIV)
“I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.”

God Says “I will give you rest”

Matthew 11v28-29 (NIV)
“Come to Me, all you who are weary and 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.”

11:28 You may be ready to fear that your burdens are too heavy to be removed, and your sins too great to be forgiven, but the persons whom Christ invites are the heavy-laden; yea, all of them without exception, whatever be their burdens, and whatever be their sins.  On the other hand, you may be tempted to seek rest in your duties or your frames, but it is Christ alone that ever can bestow it, and from him you must receive it as a free unmerited gift. 

Charles Simeon, Horae Homileticae, vol. 11 (ESV Church History Study Notes)

Isaiah 40v28-31 (NIV)
“Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

Zechariah 10v12 (NIV)
“”I will strengthen them in the LORD and in His name they will live securely,” declares the LORD.”

10:12 Where the word of a King is, there is power. 

Charles Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. 31, sermon 1824 (ESV Church History Study Notes)

Ephesians 3v16-19 (NIV)
“I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.  And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge —that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”