Maybe you want it, But you def. Need it.

Recently I have been reading commentaries left and right. Mostly regarding the issues of this society and how we tend to blame others for our own issues.. and by issues, I really mean sin. But what happens when you do something bad, like having an affair with your friend’s wife? Or trying to kill a rival for your lover’s affections? Well,we don’t talk about sin because that has been dispensed with in our culture. So we look for the external cause of the behavior like alcohol or mental illness. No need to punish; when we have “treatment” that deals with these external causes.

Nonsense! What we need instead is to recover what therapy replaced: sin and individual responsibility, knowledge of right and wrong and the sense of shame that reinforces it. This might be decidedly politically incorrect, but it’s the only thing that will make “better persons” of us all. It's not true. The booze did not make us do anything, we were born with the disease.

This same disease is what deprives us from the things that are most important in our lives... which includes, yes rest. It's true. I have ran from it for so many years-- and I know me. I know when I am tired because my body tells me. Our society gets us addicted to such things that keeps us up longer, that gives us more enegry and one that is whack for sure is that we sleep so much less than we as people used to before. We push sleep and rest aside because we can count on the caffeine, the high, the rush... it's horrible.
But what about for Christians? God built rest into the very rhythm of creation. Keeping a day of rest is a priority. And believe it or not, rest serves a purpose—a divine purpose. It reminds us that God is in control.(i tend to forget) What happens when I can't finish everything that I think I NEED to get done but my body says “you have to go to sleep”? I have to depend on God.

Rest reminds us that there is Someone we can rest in. And our need for rest is a daily reminder that we are finite creatures and must trust in an infinite God.

We cannot do it alone. But the questions lay here... Are you resting? And even more so, are you trusting God?
I know my answers are not always yes. Sadly.

But sometimes the hardest things and the right thing-- they are the same. So true. Thanks Fray.