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...
‘God, help me to be a worm-like pastor’ “But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the vine so that it withered” (Jonah 4:7). God, help me not to be a disobedient pastor like Jonah. Help me not to be the pastor who runs away instead of going to the mission field that God sent me. Help me not be a pastor who forgets God's mission and backslides. Help me not to be the pastor who doesn’t embrace the souls that God has entrusted to me. God, help me to be a worm-like pastor. Help me to walk faithfully to the place of the ministry that You have sent me. Help me to go where God wants me to go even though I am slow like the worm. Help me to walk like a turtle while looking at the destiny that You gave me. Help me to be driven by the mission that You gave me. Help me to be driven by the promises Word of God (Jn. 6:1-15; Mt. 16:18). God, I want to move forward by dreaming only Your vision. Help me to be t...