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...
Day 30: Romans 7:4-6 A life bearing fruit of God In Romans 7:4-6, Paul explains to the saints in Rome about two types of fruit. The first fruit is for death (Rom. 7:5), representing the fruit we bore while living as slaves to sin before believing in Jesus. We lived producing fruit for death, walking in disobedience and lawlessness. This life under the law is what Paul refers to as living "under the law" (6:15). This life is living in the lusts of impurity (1:24), driven by shameful desires, not living in the proper and natural way but contrary to it (v. 26), doing things that are not fitting before God. The second fruit is for God. This fruit is holiness, and the end of holiness is eternal life (6:22). If we truly believe in Jesus, we must strive to live a holy life. Holiness is living a life set apart for God, and the ultimate result of holiness is eternal life. We have ...