Rest is the best
So the last 2 weeks I have been on break from work. It's been soooo good! didn't know how much I needed it until I had it. Back to work next week, and I wanted to write about more on Rest, we're doing it in church and I think with the busy and full lives we lead, we need to do it more often. I'm so guilty of overloading myself with stuff for Loud and sometimes family, thinking that if I wasn't doing something, I was not being productive.
If anything I've learned from this break and our pastor's message on Sunday, is that we need to follow God's guidelines of living and one of them that we all too often leave out is rest. When God created the world He did everything He needed to within the first 6 days of creation, then rested from His work on the 7th. If God needed a rest, who are we little humans to think that we need to not do it. I use to feel guilty for not doing anything, but now I've learned that I'm going to be more productive in 6 days with 1 day of rest, then 7 without.
It's the world's way of thinking to believe that we need to always be constantly on the go, not needing a rest. The consequences of living this way I've felt, are exhaustion, irritability and fatigue. I felt this way a fortnight ago, all my tanks were empty and I was on the verge of breaking point. Thank God I've learned my lesson, and refuse to keep living this way. I've also felt God's peace overwhelmingly this week, our family are experiencing a mountain top moment with the birth of our brother's baby son last week. He's beautiful and I am fully obsessed with him, his name's Joel Jack Alexander Senior Lafu, he definitely has already brought so much happiness to my life and I'm so excited to see what God does in and through him as he grows up.
So back to rest (I could write so much more about Joel but I won't LOL). I have felt so much peace about where I'm at in my life, it's been an up & down battle with myself, but ptl I'm at a point where I appreciate the season I'm in and so grateful for what I have. I'm on the hunt for work so please keep me in prayer, excited about the next season God has for me in my next job, whatever that is!. If I can end this post fittingly it would be to encourage those of you that think that resting isn't good, feel guilty for it, don't think resting is productive, it's all a lie! read Genesis 1-2 and you will see that God commands us to rest. It's not a means of keeping us from living fully, if anything it's to enable us to live full lives. Rest allows us to do that, we're healthier, nicer people who are able to be more effective at what God's called us to do in our world's. So take a leaf out of His book, and learn from my mistakes learn and practice Rest! It'll be the best thing for you!
God loves you BIG!
Kerri
xox
If anything I've learned from this break and our pastor's message on Sunday, is that we need to follow God's guidelines of living and one of them that we all too often leave out is rest. When God created the world He did everything He needed to within the first 6 days of creation, then rested from His work on the 7th. If God needed a rest, who are we little humans to think that we need to not do it. I use to feel guilty for not doing anything, but now I've learned that I'm going to be more productive in 6 days with 1 day of rest, then 7 without.
It's the world's way of thinking to believe that we need to always be constantly on the go, not needing a rest. The consequences of living this way I've felt, are exhaustion, irritability and fatigue. I felt this way a fortnight ago, all my tanks were empty and I was on the verge of breaking point. Thank God I've learned my lesson, and refuse to keep living this way. I've also felt God's peace overwhelmingly this week, our family are experiencing a mountain top moment with the birth of our brother's baby son last week. He's beautiful and I am fully obsessed with him, his name's Joel Jack Alexander Senior Lafu, he definitely has already brought so much happiness to my life and I'm so excited to see what God does in and through him as he grows up.
So back to rest (I could write so much more about Joel but I won't LOL). I have felt so much peace about where I'm at in my life, it's been an up & down battle with myself, but ptl I'm at a point where I appreciate the season I'm in and so grateful for what I have. I'm on the hunt for work so please keep me in prayer, excited about the next season God has for me in my next job, whatever that is!. If I can end this post fittingly it would be to encourage those of you that think that resting isn't good, feel guilty for it, don't think resting is productive, it's all a lie! read Genesis 1-2 and you will see that God commands us to rest. It's not a means of keeping us from living fully, if anything it's to enable us to live full lives. Rest allows us to do that, we're healthier, nicer people who are able to be more effective at what God's called us to do in our world's. So take a leaf out of His book, and learn from my mistakes learn and practice Rest! It'll be the best thing for you!
God loves you BIG!
Kerri
xox
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