It's summertime – time for rest and recreation and hopefully some quality time with friends and/or family. We have daily rhythms of work and sleep, and weekly calendars that include workdays and weekends. Some of us have at least one annual time of vacation where we take a week or more to really get away from the usual routines and enjoy nature and rest. A time to rest, and a time away from our daily routine, is a need God created in us.
You may work six days a week to do your job. But the seventh day is a day of rest in honor of the Lord your God. So on that day no one should work. (Exodus 20:9-10 ERV)
It is surely true that I find my rest in God. He is the God who saves me. It is surely true that he is my rock. He is the God who saves me. He is like a fort to me. I will always be secure. (Psalm 62:1-2 NIRV)
This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. (1 John 3:19-20 NIV)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for the gift of rest. I choose to honour You in my work and rest. I bring my anxious thoughts and troubled emotions to You, trusting that You will quiet my heart and fill my whole being with Your peace. Amen
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