When someone who is competent comes alongside us we can truly understand what rest means as they undertake for us in so many ways. So when I rest in Jesus I am saying that I have found – in the words expressed in the book of Ruth – my advocate, brother, friend, kinsman, Saviour, and Redeemer. When I enter into His rest, it is like I can cease striving on my own works – something like the way Mary and Martha interacted.

Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you? – Ruth 3:1  ESV

More importantly, Galatians points out my true rest for my righteous come in Jesus because of the work He did.

Yet we know that a person is not justified^[b] by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. – Galatians 2:16  ESV

I know that I cannot, nor can the ministry of the Navigators, fulfill the Great Commission on our own. To do so would open a window to competition and conflict. However, as I accept my particular assignment given to me by God and when it is confirmed by the leadership of those in ministry around me, there is harmony.

The Navigators have what we call a Wheel Illustration that helps put together the core disciplines of our walk with Jesus. At the hub of this wheel is Jesus. It symbols total surrender to His authority and lordship. That probably does not happen right at the moment when we ask Him to be part of our lives, but it will become a necessary act of our will.

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. – Galatians 2:20  ESV

I believe that God even creates the desire to obey so that we have the opportunity to express His lordship in our lives.

  “When we are fully surrendered, we are fully functional.”

So my life as a disciple has another added element. I am a disciple when I have accepted Jesus as my Saviour, yielded to Him as Lord and received Him into my life.