When the Lord broke my Bible, He broke open the story of our shared memories. Verse after verse, margin scribble after margin scribble the story of God listening and responding and rescuing and healing were all there in this Bible.
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The Presence of God offers us means rest and peace in life. However, so often we simply go through the motions and don’t step fully into His presence.
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Resting in the Lord gives you strength and courage. When we fully rest in Him, we wholeheartedly release control and trust the Lord with both the mundane details we can see and the bigger story out of sight and over the horizon.
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Lasting rest can be found when we daily—and constantly—pour out praise offerings to the Lord. Not because of what He can do for us but because of Who He is.
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God gave us the perfect example of how to work and rest. And then He wrote it down for us, because He knew we would forget. But, sometimes we still forget and need reminding. These five YouVersion Bible App Devotionals about Rest will help.
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The rest and joy you experience by remembering His Resurrection isn’t reserved for Easter Sunday. It’s meant for your everyday living.
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Jesus took time to rest with His Father. And not once does Scripture record that He felt guilty about taking time away from others to do it. So why do some parents feel guilty or selfish for making time to rest with Him each day.
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Sometimes we hold a narrow view of rest that focuses on self-care rituals and vacations. This perspective puts rest in the luxury item column and implies that rest needs ideal circumstances to occur.
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Throughout Scripture, the Lord tells His people “to remember” over and over again. When we make the practice of remembering an active part of our lives, we can live our lives from a place of rest.
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The world’s pace is full of predictable deadlines that provide a rhythm of comfort in the repetition of routine. But, the Lord’s pace is different.
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God rested first. Then later His Son gave us a real-world example of how to balance a busy work schedule and rest. Our work and our rest both matter to God, but He made only one holy.
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Winter reminds me that even nature needs time to rest and retreat to its roots. And while we can’t see what God is doing to the trees, we can trust that Spring will come.
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Before the pace of your schedule breaks you, start breaking it down minute-by-minute and giving it to Jesus. Commit to spending 14 minutes of your day RESTING in Him rather than STRIVING in the world.
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Many of us get caught up and overwhelmed at the size of our lists. We have no idea how we will get it all done. When we don’t, we feel like we failed or vow to work even harder and for more hours of the day.
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Do you know that rest is one of God’s gifts to us? Resting in Him, in His creation, in His blessings, in His comfort. Not because of what we do but because of who calls us His.
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Being lost doesn’t need to be a permanent state of being. The Lord offers us directions, but we need to ask for them.
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Forget about who wears the pants in your family. Instead ask yourself: Who wears the crown?
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When Jesus took time to rest, He still had work to do. People still needed Him. He still had places to be and still had miles to walk. Yet, Jesus made the choice to still Himself, to rest.
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Even Jesus felt tired at times. If He hadn’t taken the time to REST by the well, the Samaritan woman never would have met Jesus.
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I need peace and rest. Who’s with me? We live in a time of more questions than answers. More fears and division than peace and unity. You don’t need me to list all of the ways this is true right now. But it’s not new.
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