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...
What God wants from us [Psalms 81] Yesterday before we had a family worship on New Year's night, all five members of the family sat down against the wall on our bed and read a book. While sitting down, my wife and my first son were reading the Bible, Yeri was reading a princess book to her younger sister Karis. After reading for a while, I told them ‘Let’s have worship now’. Karis seemed she wanted Yeri to read her the princess book a little more. After having to put down the princess book, Yeri read the first chapter of Dillon’s Bible. Then I briefly exhorted the Bible verse that was emphasized within that chapter. And I tried to have prayer time with them. But Karis didn’t listen well. So when I asked her if she would pray together, she quietly answered “No”. So I said to her, ‘Then, you can go to your room with the book you were reading.’ She was h...