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...
“If God is for us” (4) [Romans 8:31-34] Look at Romans 8:33 – “Who will bring a charge against God's elect? …” When we think of the “God’s elect” here, when did God choose? Romans 8:29 says that God foreknew. In other words, God chose before the creation of the world, before all things existed. Look at Ephesians 1:4 – “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, ….” So, who are the people God has chosen? They are those who has become conformed to the image of God’s only begotten Son, Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:29). Here, the Son of God, the only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, not only died, but rose again (v. 34). Not only that, but He is the One who ascended into heaven, and sat at his right hand of God (Mk. 16:19; Heb. 10:12) to make intercession for us (Rom. 8:34). As God's chosen ones, we must imitate Jesus. The subject of all our wishe...