Discipleship: Rest (Part 5)

The world operates on and demands from us an attitude of restlessness. If you aren’t working, someone else is working to get ahead. If you aren’t doing something, you are wasting your time. Even now, some of us are thinking about something we should be doing or something that has to get done. Jesus was busy, but he also took time to rest (John 21:25, Mark 6:31). Our God is a God who rests and offers rest (Matthew 11:28-30). He invites us as we are, not as we should be and says, come to me and I shall give you rest. Chris examines three forms of rest and how the rest God gives us fits into these paradigms:1. Leisure – fun – fellowship: freedom from activity or labor2. Sleep: repose, sleep; specifically: a bodily state characterized by minimal function and metabolicactivities3. Rest for the soul