When your wife takes a weird picture of you while you’re sleeping😳…why not turn it into a devotion post! Have you ever been “dog tired”? I mean, so worn out you barely have enough energy to sleep? I was just grabbing a quick nap this time, but I’ve been there before where all I wanted to do was sleep. But even after 8+ hours, I realized I needed a deeper kind of rest.
Not all rest is the same. It’s possible to rest even while we work, and it’s possible to work ourselves silly with worry, anger, bitterness…even while we are “resting” in bed or vegging in front of television. There really is no rest like the rest God provides HIs followers as we live for Him.
Isaiah 28:12 says, “To whom he said,
This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.” The people of Israel were about to experience every kind of unrest imaginable as they were taken captive, and verse 12 points out the root of the problem: They refused God’s offer of rest and instead chose to continue to go their own sinful way.
If we refuse to change what God tells us to change in our lives, we’ll never fully experience the amazing rest God has for us.
If we refuse to rest in the next step God has shown us, we might never get to see or enjoy the rest of the plan.
Let’s rest in God’s plan and God’s promises today.
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