Scriptures on Rest #BiteofBread

Maybe I’m just tired, but as I pondered about what our theme should be this week, the word “rest” kept coming to mind.

I think of “rest” when I think of summer. My favorite season awaits just around the corner. We’re almost there. Memorial Day is the holiday when summer officially begins in my book and the beach town where I live.  And with summer I think how everything should slow down and how rest should  become apart of my everyday.

But I think summer was only like that when I was seven. 

The lazy hazy days of summer no longer exist unless I intentionally make them days of rest. 

Life is like that; isn’t it? We have to be intentional about everything that’s important to us like spending time with our significant others or friends or children. I have to be intentional about mopping the floor too (at least once a month), but I’d rather focus on not mopping.

Rest is important. It affects our health and our moods. 

I’ll never forget when my first two children both finally began to sleep all night. I got up one morning and thought, “I can be a good mommy! I’ve just been tired all of this time!”

Yet resting doesn’t only involve sleep or sitting on the beach catching some vitamin D. Many of us are striving in other areas in our lives where we really need to take a break from the worry and work and let God do His thing.

3 Places of Needed Rest

• Weekly, physical rest commanded by God. “Remember to observe the Sabbath day be keeping it holy. . .” Genesis 2:3
• Emotional rest, not worrying. “ Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Phil 4: 6,7
• Salvation rest, no longer striving to earn salvation.

  “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2: 8-9

  “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; ¹⁰ for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,^[a] just as God did from his.” Hebrews 4:9-10

So . . . this week we will focus on these three areas where we need rest.

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Sneak Peek:

Psalm 46:10: He says, “Be still, and know that I am God I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Psalm 91:1 “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalm 37:7 “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.