In our culture and language the word rest can sound like a simple word. We talk of taking a rest which usually means a short break, long enough to regain some strength but never quite long enough for a full recovery before we have to start again. So it is no wonder that when we hear God say “Rest in me,” we don’t begin to understand what He means. God is inviting us to a God-size rest. In the Old Testament, one of the Hebrew words for rest is nuah. It means absence of activity or movement, being settled in…
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Let’s again take a fresh breath in the Lord’s Prayer. Familiarity so often dulls wonder. Left to our own devices, we may just read God our do-list from our souls and…
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