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Rest For The Restless

Many of us have an inner restlessness and we try to fulfill it through work, relationships, making money, or pleasure. But we forget God made us for Him. It’s only with Him that we find true satisfaction.

Psalm 62 says that we can find rest in God alone; then in Psalm 42 we read, ‘As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you my God. Where can I go and meet with God?’

King Solomon asked a very telling question: ‘What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest…’ (Ecclesiastes 2:22–23 NIV). Then we have the wonderful words of Jesus: ‘Come to me all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest’ (Matthew 11:28 NIV).

Bono describes his U2 band’s hit single, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – from their 1987 album The Joshua Tree – as ‘a Gospel song with a kind of a restless spirit.' Maybe that’s how you’ve felt. As if you’ve been searching and searching. Do you feel defeated and discouraged?

The only answer to the vacuum in our hearts is a relationship with God, knowing the Father through the work of His Son as applied by the power of the Holy Spirit. And the nurturing of this relationship – resting in and rehearsing the Gospel – is the great purpose of our inner person. It’s the very reason our hearts were created: to know, love, and delight in the God who created us for His glory.

Written by CHRIS WITTS

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