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...
The result of justification (7): Giving us hope that does not disappoints us “And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” (Romans 5:5) The Bible says that hope does not disappoint us (Rom.5:5). To what does “hope” refer here? It refers to hope that starts with “the hope for the glory of God” (v. 2), and ends with character, that is produced by perseverance which is produced by suffering (vv. 3-4). Hope for the glory of God is something that even new believers can hope for. But suffering produces perseverance, perseverance is character, character hope is the hope among hopes, and the fulfillment of hope that mature Christians hope for. The Bible says that this hope does not disappoint us (v. 5). Hope does not disappoint us because i...