Comments on: Just REST!! http://blueeyedzoo.com/blog/2006/02/just-rest Kids, computers, and our not-so-perfect life Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:16:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laura http://blueeyedzoo.com/blog/2006/02/just-rest/comment-page-1#comment-60 Laura Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:14:54 +0000 http://georgeandshannon.com/blog/?p=64#comment-60 Thanks for sharing these thoughts Shan. ^^ Thanks for sharing these thoughts Shan. ^^

]]> By: Gran http://blueeyedzoo.com/blog/2006/02/just-rest/comment-page-1#comment-59 Gran Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:24:31 +0000 http://georgeandshannon.com/blog/?p=64#comment-59 I read this post on Monday and was reminded of some of the trials of raising preschoolers! I loved reading where you shared how you felt you were patiently being reminded to rest and let God hold you through several situations you have been dealing with recently. It was like a word picture you had painted for me of God having his arms wrapped around you and holding you tight. I started praying for you as you seek and ask how God wants you to deal with your children and what is right for you. Tuesday morning when I was having my quiet time and before I started on my Beth Moore "Believing God" homework, I picked up my Bible and decided to read one of the devotionals scattered through it. I looked through the list of titles and decided on one called Pleasing God in an Ungodly World from Genesis 6:9-13. Would you believe it was on REST? A little different approach but it was special to me... These are some quotes from this devo... "So what lessons can we learn from Noah about pleasing God in an ungodly world? The answer is rest. The very name Noah means rest. To rest is to recuperate, stand still, pause, stop or cease... God's purpose for Noah was to bring rest to the earth from the chaos of sin. Because of our personal relationship with God, we also have the unique opportunities to bring rest or comfort to somewone whose world is filled with chaos. (...when we offer comfort to a friend or compassion to someone who does not know the Lord, we have planted a seed toward bringing them to Christ, which is bringing the ultimate rest from the chaos of death, hell and the grave...) Noah was not sinless but he lived a holy life before the Lord. Holiness must be a priority in each of our lives. Every time we choose to obey the Lord and resist temptation, we bring rest from sin and its effects into our lives and home... We, like Noah, are destined to be ministers of God's rest by the very lives we lead... Noah walked with God. They had a personal, direct relationship. When intimacy with God is missing, holiness can lead to legalism and religiosity, which does not provide us with rest from sin but the impossible standard that we strive to live up to in our own strength. Striving to be holy leads to exhaustion not rest. Noah knew how to hear the voice of the Lord and obey his word, not through legalism but through relationship... It is through our relationship with God that we gain the strength to live holy lives. As we learn to rest quietly in Him, w,like Noah will know his voice. So how do we please God in an ungodly world? Learn to rest in Him and to minister His rest to a world otherwise filled with chaos." by Rebecca Wagner Sytsema I read this post on Monday and was reminded of some of the trials of raising preschoolers! I loved reading where you shared how you felt you were patiently being reminded to rest and let God hold you through several situations you have been dealing with recently. It was like a word picture you had painted for me of God having his arms wrapped around you and holding you tight. I started praying for you as you seek and ask how God wants you to deal with your children and what is right for you.

Tuesday morning when I was having my quiet time and before I started on my Beth Moore “Believing God” homework, I picked up my Bible and decided to read one of the devotionals scattered through it. I looked through the list of titles and decided on one called Pleasing God in an Ungodly World from Genesis 6:9-13. Would you believe it was on REST? A little different approach but it was special to me…

These are some quotes from this devo…

“So what lessons can we learn from Noah about pleasing God in an ungodly world? The answer is rest. The very name Noah means rest. To rest is to recuperate, stand still, pause, stop or cease…

God’s purpose for Noah was to bring rest to the earth from the chaos of sin. Because of our personal relationship with God, we also have the unique opportunities to bring rest or comfort to somewone whose world is filled with chaos. (…when we offer comfort to a friend or compassion to someone who does not know the Lord, we have planted a seed toward bringing them to Christ, which is bringing the ultimate rest from the chaos of death, hell and the grave…)

Noah was not sinless but he lived a holy life before the Lord. Holiness must be a priority in each of our lives. Every time we choose to obey the Lord and resist temptation, we bring rest from sin and its effects into our lives and home… We, like Noah, are destined to be ministers of God’s rest by the very lives we lead…

Noah walked with God. They had a personal, direct relationship. When intimacy with God is missing, holiness can lead to legalism and religiosity, which does not provide us with rest from sin but the impossible standard that we strive to live up to in our own strength. Striving to be holy leads to exhaustion not rest. Noah knew how to hear the voice of the Lord and obey his word, not through legalism but through relationship…

It is through our relationship with God that we gain the strength to live holy lives. As we learn to rest quietly in Him, w,like Noah will know his voice. So how do we please God in an ungodly world? Learn to rest in Him and to minister His rest to a world otherwise filled with chaos.” by Rebecca Wagner Sytsema

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