The Rest That Comes Before the Work
Jesus offers tired people not an escape from labour but a different way of carrying it.
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Jesus offers tired people not an escape from labour but a different way of carrying it.
Jesus does not ask the tired to try harder before they come to him.
Jesus offers rest not as a reward for the strong but as a gift to the tired.
Weariness is not a failure of faith, and the invitation to rest is addressed to the tired.
When the day has already taken more than you had to give, the invitation of Christ is not a task but a resting place.
Jesus offers rest to those worn down by work and worry, and asks only that they come.
Before we are asked to do anything, we are invited to stop.
Tiredness is not a failure of faith, and the invitation to rest is addressed to the weary first.
Weariness is not a failure of faith; it is the ordinary weather of a working life, and there is a word for it.
Stillness is not idleness; it is the discipline of trusting God when we would rather act.
Tiredness is not a failure of faith; it is the condition in which faith is usually practised.
A study on Matthew 11:28–30, and what it means to be given rest rather than told to find it.
Weariness is not a failure of faith, and the invitation to rest was made to the tired.
A short study on what it means to bring a tired life to Jesus and be given rest.
Weariness is not a verdict on your faith; it is the condition Jesus spoke to directly, and answered with an invitation rather than a demand.
Weariness is not a failure of faith, and the invitation to rest is spoken to the tired, not the strong.
An old invitation from Matthew's Gospel still speaks plainly to anyone worn down by the pace of ordinary life.
Weariness is not a failure of faith; it is the condition to which one of the gospel's plainest invitations is addressed.
A Sunday prayer for those whose future is in someone else's hands.
Jesus notices that his friends have not even had time to eat, and does something about it.
A Monday prayer shaped by Jesus' teaching on the Sabbath.