Rest

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In our pursuit of knowledge as to how to live in such a manner that we honor God each of the seven days of each week, we continue with Wednesday.

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking- around life—and place it before God as an offering.
Romans 12:1 MSG

As we continue to focus on that call, let me recap.
Sunday = Honor God through worship.
Monday = Honor God with your work.
Tuesday = Honor God by dedicating more than fifty-five hours a
year to Him.

With three days before and three days after Wednesday, the day earns the title “Hump Day”—as masterfully portrayed by the camel in the Geico commercial. Wednesday represents all of those desperate pleas that begin with the words, “If I can just...”—words followed with an assortment of...

“get through”
“catch up”
“make it to tomorrow”
and statements like those.

Wednesday marks the day on which people grow weary.

While not necessarily on Wednesday, everyone grows weary. In Isaiah 40, the prophet declares, “even youths grow tired and weary.” Knowing our need for rest, Jesus extended an invitation to all to come to Him to find such a seemingly elusive gift. Continuing with the theme, the apostle Paul encouraged his hearers to not become weary doing good.

Weariness invades everyone’s life; it is no respecter of persons. Toddlers learning to walk, children up too late, teenagers cramming for exams, moms and dads tending to children at three a.m., young professionals burning the midnight oil, senior adults worn down by the years—all know weariness. Does a solution exist? Can we prevail?

The answers to those questions return us to familiar territory—to the arena of “easier said than done.” Yet, nevertheless, the affirmative “yes” answers both questions. So—what’s the solution? How can you prevail?

Before I show you in Scripture, the what and how, respectively—a reminder of our essence will prove helpful. The Word of God drives home the amazing truth that God created you. You did not arrive due to some accidental progression of nature. You were created and in God’s image you were created.  When He formed you, He gifted you with a body, a soul, and a spirit. While the discussions prove complex, in summary, we exist as physical, emotional, and spiritual beings. Therefore, in regard to the subject at hand, we grow weary physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

With that grounding, we return now to the questions— “What’s the solution?” and “How can we prevail?” One answer belongs to both.
REST

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