{"id":3970,"date":"2018-09-08T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/08\/just-rest\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T12:55:53","slug":"just-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/just-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Just rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none;text-align:left;\">For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.<\/span> &#8211; Isaiah 30:15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martha was busy rushing around serving. Mary was busy resting&#8230;busy resisting all the things that would pull her away from resting at Jesus&#8217; feet.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are addicted to busyness, compelled by the fear of being lazy.<\/p>\n<p>But the person who rushes around like a headless chicken, and the person who is lazy are both holding different ends of the same stick:<\/p>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t settled in the reality of being loved by God.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you are, you will naturally find yourself propelled to do good works that God prepared for you to do before you were even born (Eph 2:10).<\/p>\n<p>The issue isn&#8217;t the work. The issue is that you haven&#8217;t accepted and rested in God&#8217;s love for you.<\/p>\n<p>Just root yourself in the love He has for you&#8230;And you&#8217;ll be amazed at how the fruit happens effortlessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. &#8211; Isaiah 30:15 Martha was busy rushing around serving. Mary was busy resting&#8230;busy resisting all the things that would pull her away from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/08\/just-rest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just rest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}