Dear friend ,

Greetings. I trust your year is going well and that you have had a wonderful January. I was able to get some time off and relax a bit. I have been mulling over the concept of ‘rest’. It was a good many years ago now when I

fully understood the concept of Jesus being our rest. When I was growing up, I had this belief that I was never really good enough for God. I was always failing him and therefore always striving to be good enough, do enough, to please him. I also worried a lot. I worried about almost everything. But slowly (I am a slow learner! lol), as I read more and understood more, I realised that I will never be good enough, and I will never do enough, and that is Ok because, in Jesus, I

am made good enough. Sometimes I just stop and marvel at this. The Lord God of all creation. The God almighty who put the sun moon and stars in their place knew I would never be good enough so in his infinite wisdom and love sent Jesus to die in my place and therefore make a way for me to have eternal fellowship with Him! Matthew 11:28 (NIV) says: 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” That ‘rest’ is not just temporal, physical rest, but the rest from striving to be good enough and do enough. It is the rest that comes from understanding my salivation is in Christ, and Christ alone and that He has done it and I can rest in his unfailing love.