What is rest?

Is it relaxing? Holidays?

Is rest doing nothing? or sleeping?

What is rest?  Is rest different for you when compared to another?

Why does someone say gardening is restful, when it is tiring?

Why does another say they feel restful when you think how after knowing what they are or have been doing?

How can Jesus rest, and sleep, on the boat during a storm?  That doesnt make sense!  Jim Varsos shared this lovely gem:

There is a word Greeks use for rest, ἡσυχία – hesikhia – meaning stillness, rest, quietness, a state of inner peace and tranquillity.

Hesikhia emphasises the importance of silence and solitude as a means of fostering spiritual growth and connection with the divine. We see this when Jesus was asleep in the boat during the storm.

This will most certainly keep us awake and we will need God’s rest to carry us through.

Rest is quality, but also a quantity.  Rest is tangible, and yet intangible.  Rest is a science, and also an art.

Rest is personal, also shared.  Rest can be given, and received.  Rest can be subjective, and be objective.  Rest can be a journey, and the destination.

Could I create more rhythm in this post, and in my life, around rest - probably...

But the question remains, what is Rest?

Great question...because if i cannot grasp true rest, then what I think I need to do to feel rested is not really going to sustain or satisfy.

This January, we will look for wisdom in the Bible and see what it says abour rest knowing its probably not what we think it is, but definitely what we need!