Choose to make rest a non-negotiable rhythm in your life.
Genesis 2:2 (NIV)
Proverbs 3:7-8 (NIV)
Rest is not vacating our reality - but reordering it around Christ.
Rest is not the absence of activity - but the presence of partnership with the Lord.
“If we have to resist rest to maintain momentum, it’s not the Lord’s energy we are trusting”. – Zack Eswine
Rest is the foundation of work - not the other way around.
Rest is best experienced from slowing - not always sprinting.
Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)
2 invitations from Jesus:
1. Come to me.
2. Take my yoke upon you.
“The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.” In other words, no one ever says, “If you want to be a great athlete, go vault eighteen feet, run the mile under four minutes,” or “If you want to be a great musician, play the Beethoven violin concerto.” Instead, we advise the young artist or athlete to enter a certain kind of overall life, one involving deep associations with qualified people as well as rigorously scheduled time, diet, and activity for the mind and body.” - Oswald Chambers
