True rest has been a very elusive element of my life. So, when I am offered an opportuntity to learn more about what God has to say about it I usually take it. One of those recent opportunities was the book: The Rest Of God: Restoring: Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath, by Mark Buchanan. It helped me take a fresh look at rest from my current place in life.
There are so many lessons to be mined from this book, but my take away today is that sabbath is made for us. God wants to bless and yes even spoil us. He invites each of us to take a day each week to do what we love. For that to happen well, we need to lose our legalistic expectations of what we may think religion and rules dictate about rest.
There is so much more to say, but for the sake of brevity and rest…=} I ask you to think about what you love to do. What makes you feel alive? What feeds your soul? Then be sure you make time to do it! God delights when we feel the His pleasure! So let’s make us all happy.
As for me, I plan to keep writing multifacetedblog.net, however, I also need some space and rest. So this post will be the last blog post of 2016 and I will resume again in early to mid January of 2017. I plan to take time with family and to reflect more on restoring my soul and how to better incorporate God’s rest, Sabbath Rest, into my life.
May God Bless you beyond all you can ask or imagine as you close out 2016. I pray The Holy Spirit meets you where you are, in your rejoicing, rest, busyness, sorrows, in a crowd of friends or in loneliness, with family or strangers, at home or far away. As our Creator says: “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” [Joshua 1:5 & Hebrews 13:5]
