Will we find Our Rest, in the Work that we Should be doing?

Matthew 11:28-30
²⁸ “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ 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. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Yes, I know. The title of this post may seem to be a bit strange. Finding rest, in doing work???
But is there something to it? A yoke does imply that there is a work to do, of some sort.

I’m not suggesting that we go out and find as much work as we can, in order to find rest, that would be a recipe to be overburdened. But what if we can find a work, that brings about a rest?

I do think that we can see this, in action, in 1 Kings 17:7-16. It’s the account of when Elijah was fed by the widow at Zarepath.

There was a famine in the land, and God told Elijah to go to Zarepath, where God had instructed a widow to feed him. (1 Kings 17:9) There was only one problem with this plan. The widow had next to no food.
She was about to go home and make a final meal for herself and her son, and then die. (1 Kings 17:12)

She was not in a restful state, but one of desperation, as Elijah was asking her for some food, as God had directed him to.

How would we respond to a request, like Elijah’s?

“Are you for real? I have next to nothing, and the little that I do have, you want?” Could possibly be one of our reactions???

Fortunately, for all involved, the widow didn’t ultimately react in this way, but did make some food for Elijah, and then some for herself and her son. The result was, that her supply didn’t run out, but a miraculous provision occurred, as Elijah had spoken to her in…

1 Kings 17:14.
¹⁴ For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”

The widow was appointed to provide for Elijah, by God.
In doing her work, she was provided for.
She saw rest, by doing a work, that she was meant to be doing.

Are we able to do likewise?
Can we see the work, that we are meant to be doing?
Then will we do it?
If we can and do, will it then lead to a rest, through doing a work?

One final thought on this is, we are told that she made food for Elijah, herself and her son. She didn’t provide food for everyone in Zarepath, just the ones she was meant to.
Can we sometimes miss our rest, because we take on more than we should do?