The glorious God is the only Ruler, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. God will be honored, and his power will last forever. 1 Timothy 6:15-16
Jesus Tells Us; I am the all-powerful King of kings and Lord of lords, which means I have the Power to take care of you. Not only do I have the Power, but I want to take care of you. Will you let Me? Some people are afraid to come to Me when they’re hurting or tired. They’re afraid that I will ask even more of them, when they’ve already worked so hard, they can barely move. All of this makes them want to hide from me. What I want is to be their hiding place, and yours. Let Me heal your hurts and give you a quiet place for your soul to rest.
Jesus Concludes; Come to Me, and I will give you rest.
1 Timothy 6:15-16; Isaiah 55:8-9; Revelation 2:4, Matthew 11:28; Study Notes
Footnotes 1 Timothy: 11-12; Paul uses active and forceful verbs to describe the Christian life, flee, pursue, fight, take hold. Some think Christianity is passive, advocating that we have to wait for God to act. On the contrary, we must have an active faith, training, working hard, sacrificing, and doing what we know God wants. Is it time for action on your part? Christian service, like athletics, requires training and sacrifice. Our discipline and obedience largely define whether we will be contributors or merely spectators. How would other believers rank your contributing role on Christ’s team?
Passage Isaiah 55:8-9; 8” For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. 9” As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Footnotes Isaiah 55:8-9; The people of Israel were foolish to act as if they knew what God was thinking and planning. His knowledge and wisdom are far greater than any human’s. we are foolish to try to fit God into our mold, to make his plans and purposes conform to ours. Instead, we must strive to fit into his plans.
Passage Revelation 2:4; Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.
Footnotes Revelation 2:4; Paul had once commended the church in Ephesus for their love for God and others, but many of the church founders had died, and many of the second-generation believers had lost their zeal for God. They were a busy church, the members did much to benefit themselves and the community, but their love for God and each other had faded. Our service for God must be motivated by our love for God or it will not last.
Passage Matthew 11:28; “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Footnotes Matthew 11:28-30; In Contrast to the judgement, he predicted for the people in the cities that rejected him, Jesus offers rest to those who come to him in childlike faith. Jesus invites all peoples, not just the wise and clever. The rest Jesus offers in his kingdom means freedom from the extra burdens the Pharisees and teachers of the law implemented in their day and the additional rules we try to add onto our faith today. Humble people can be free from a “try harder, do more” religion. To find rest, people must throw off the yoke of burdens and legalism. A yoke was a heavy wooden harness that would be put on oxen and attached to equipment to the oxen pulled. Jesus was likely referring to the hundreds of extra rules and requirements the religious leaders were putting on the people. Jesus’ teachings make sense to humble learners, not proud legalists. If you have been devastated by sin, drained of joy by rule keeping, or crushed by persecution or oppression, this rest is for you. Jesus gives love, peace, and healing now, and one day eternal life and joyful unity with him.
Jesus Tells Us is from the Jesus Calling 365 devotions for kids.
Footnotes Source: Life Application Study Bible
THE WORLD…we see history
HIS STORY/THE FAITH BEHIND THE FAMOUS SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 1643-1727
In the late 17th century, this English scientist developed original theories that would be the basis for much, if not all that followed, it is hard to overestimate this importance of Newtonian insights and formulations in fields from optics to mechanics to mathematics to physics, to philosophy. Experimenting with light, Isaac Newton employed a prism to break white light into the colors of the spectrum, then to recombine them into white. This experiment would lead to spectroscopy, the study of the absorption and emission of light. Observing an apple fall from a tree at the same time that the moon was visible in the sky, Newton had an epiphany that led to him elucidating the principles of gravity. He also developed and expressed concepts that were crucial to man’s understanding of the physical universe, that every object moves in a straight line unless impacted by a force, that the acceleration of an object is dependent on its mass and the forces acting upon it, and that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Like Benjamin Franklin later, Newton was an inventor and technician as well as a theorist. He devised a reflecting telescope. He came up with calculus. His mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy, first published in 1687 and now known as the Principia, is perhaps the most important book of natural science ever written, and all scientists who have followed Newton owe him an incalculable debt.
The Guardian online
He has been called “the greatest scientific genius the world has known.” Yet he spent less time on science than on theology.
Alexander Pope’s well-known epitaph epitomized Isaac Newton’s fame. Even in Newton’s lifetime, his contemporaries’ adulation verged on worship. Following his death in April 1727, Newton lay in state in Westminster Abbey for a week. At the funeral, his pall was borne by three earls, two dukes, and the Lord Chancellor. Voltaire observed, “He was buried like a king who had done well by his subjects.” No scientist before or since has been so revered and interred with such high honor.”
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Newton left behind a remarkable ten million words of writing, most of it not scientific but religious, historical and alchemical. This material was so private that he shared it with almost no one during his lifetime. Many of the papers contained unorthodox – and, to his contemporaries, deeply heretical – views on scripture. Roughly a million words were devoted to alchemical investigations that fell outside the realm of science even in Newton’s-day. “Scientific” and mathematical writings make up just a third of the total.
Newton spent more time on theology than on science. Following Newton’s death in 1727, the papers remained largely unread and inaccessible for more than two hundred years. In 1936 the non-scientific material was scattered by auction, and it was only in the 1950s that some of it became accessible to the few historians of science then at work. Today though, the papers are spread between dozens of locations, nearly all of Newton’s religious and alchemical material, and much of the scientific writing, is freely available online. As a result, errant scraps of paper, secret alchemical notes and obsessively re-copied private religious treatises penned by Newton are now just as easy to access as the contents of his major publications.
Source: LIFE MAGAZINE 100 PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD Page 95 https://www.life.com/history/lifes-100-people-who-changed-the-world/
Source of Read More: The Guardian online https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/jul/08/private-lives-isaac-newton-science-history#:~:text=Following%20Newton’s%20death%20in%201727,of%20science%20then%20at%20work.