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...
May we be of the same mind. [Romans 15:1-6] These days, I am studying Jonah 4 during the Bible study for leaders. The more I study, the more the lesson God gives me is, in one word, 'Yet not my will, but Your be done.’ God's servant, the prophet Jonah, was angry with God for turning His will to bring disaster on the people of Nineveh who repented and turned from their sins. Why? Jonah wanted his will to be done rather than God's will to be done. What was Jonah’s will? It was the destruction of the people of Nineveh. Jonah wanted God to bring disaster on the people of Nineveh with his life. Looking at Jonah like this, I thought about how to know the maturity of faith. In a word, I think the maturity of faith is to put down my own will in front of the cross and submit to the will of the Lord. In other words, a mature Christian prays the prayer Jesus offered t...