Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 10/11/26 by Pastor Steve Shields.
How are you? Are you feeling overwhelmed?
It seems like the standard solution for overdoing is overdoing a little more.
God designed you to need a Sabbath – to benefit from taking one – and He gives you the Lord’s day, His day, to meet that need.
There is a tension regarding this rest. God introduces us to rest at creation. God models rest. He gives us a rhythm by which we can walk and find rest. God mandates rest because it is vital to our physical, mental and spiritual health. But we resist rest. Rest comes when we walk in God’s established rhythm of life. Rest disappears when we march to the beat of a different drummer.
The kind of rest God provides is a rest that says, “It is finished.” In creation on days 1-6 God said “it is good” and day 7 God said “it is done”. The kind of rest God provides is a rest that comes with faith. It doesn’t just come “by faith” it comes with the faith that saved you – so, hold onto that faith.
Hold to the One who holds onto you. Be intentional about trusting God. Listen for God to speak to you. Receive the rest that sends you out rested.
Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27 (NLT)
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