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     "Which is the most important of all the commandments?"

     Jesus said, "The first in importance is, ' Listen Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.'"

     "And here is the second: 'Love others as well as you love yourself.'"


                                                                                                                                            Mark 12:28-31 The Message Bible

Your Life is a meditation. Rest. skip the "Busy".

5/15/2019

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The Radical Pursuit of Rest - by John Koessler. Read it all, but here's some quotes:

"...busier is not better. Busier is not better because a busy faith is often a burdened faith. Jesus’s call is not a call to busyness but to be unburdened.​"
"...Jesus was taking aim at the exhaustion that comes from taking on burdens that God never intended us to carry. It is the weariness of trying to live not by God’s standard but by someone else’s. It could be a pastor’s; it could be a parent’s; it might even be my own standard. This is the burden of a spiritual life that is more about what we are doing than it is about why or who we are doing it for."

"...sin and legalism are really just two sides of the same coin. Legalism is our inadequate coping strategy for dealing with the problem of sin. Legalism is a human attempt to rid ourselves of the burden that only Christ can remove."

"Fortunately for us, Jesus issues this invitation to rule keepers and rule breakers alike. He offers His rest to 
all who are weary and heavy laden."

"Busier is dysfunctional. Busier may even be counter to the gospel. When Jesus in Matthew 11:28–30 calls us to take up the yoke of rest, He is not calling us into a different kind of labor. There is work, to be sure. The image of the yoke implies this. We serve Christ. But at its heart, this is a call to relationship more than it is a call to task."

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