Our Creator has woven the gift of rest into the fabric of His creation. If God Himself enjoyed His day of rest, His Sabbath, shouldn’t we? Rest isn’t a good work that we do to please God. Rest is the absence of our work; it’s receiving the grace that is offered to us through Christ’s work on the cross of Good Friday and the empty tomb of Easter. Today our gracious Father invites us to enter into His rest, His Sabbath, sharing in the benefits of what His Son has done. Jesus has already done the work—savor it! Rest in His presence as He serves you with His living and active Word and as He prepares His Table of grace for you to enjoy.
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“Let us therefore strive to enter that rest!” Hebrews 4:1-16
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