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...
‘Pray in this way’ [Matthew 6:9-13] We were taught by Jesus about prayer by focusing on Matthew 6:5-8 under the title ‘when you pray.’ We received three lessons from Jesus about prayer: (1) When we pray we must not be like hypocrites. Jesus was pointing out the wrong public prayers of the Jews (Seyoon Kim). Jesus is telling us not to pray hypocritically like the Pharisees and the scribes. (2) When we pray we should pray to our Father in secret. This is the lesson that Jesus taught the Jews to pray right after pointing out their wrong public prayers. We must pray to our Heavenly Father in secret. (3) When we pray we must not keep on babbling. This lesson Jesus pointed out to the wrong prayers of the Gentiles. In this way, after pointing out the wrong prayers of the Gentiles, Jesus comes to verse 8 and teaches the correct prayer: “So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need befo...