https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gods-invitation-rest/ Accept God’s Invitation to Rest August 24, 2025 | Scott W. Kay © iStock.com/nullplus Share Post Email Advertise on TGC “It feels so nice to finally stop and catch my breath.” Can you remember the last time you had a moment like that? For some of us, it’s been a while. In our hard-working, highly productive culture, we can sometimes feel like exhausted swimmers swept downstream in a fast-moving river, fighting to keep our heads above water, gasping for air. We get up early and stay up late. We never waste a minute. Our schedule is full, running here, running there, running late, running to catch up, running on empty, until we collapse in utter exhaustion. Underneath the satisfaction of being hard-working, hard-playing people is a weariness that’s desperate for the pace to relent so we can rest and recharge. Deep down, we’re dying to slow down and take a break. We keep telling ours...
When all the hope of the world is cut off “Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the stomach of the fish, and he said, "I called out of my distress to the LORD, And He answered me I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.” (Jonah 2:1-2). Our people live with hope. We cannot live without hope. Because we have hope, we are eating, drinking, working and living day by day. The hope that some of us have is hoping to 'get better' and strive to overcome the current adversity and painful environment. Others are not giving up their lives but endure and persevere in the midst of difficulties with the expectation that "I will be able to succeed someday". There is hope for something in us, so we are enduring day by day. If this hope in us dies, we are alive but actually we are good as de...