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...
‘You may know that you have eternal life.” (4) [1 John 5:13-21] In today's text, 1 John 5:13, the Bible says this: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” Focusing on this verse, I want to meditate on the five assurances (John MacArthur) in 1 John 5:13-21 under the title of ‘You may know that you have eternal life’, and want to receive the lessons that he Lord gives us: The first assurance is the assurance of salvation. In other words, it is the assurance that those who believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have eternal life. Look at 1 John 5:13 again: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.” The Apostle John, in writing the letter to 1 John, considers why he is writing this letter to his recipients for six purposes: (1) Look at 1 Jo...