As we continue in our week on Simple Christianity, we have the joy today of discovering what it means to truly rest in God.

And all the stress and hurry of life, don't we all need to find even just a few moments of rest today?

May God reorient the way that you see him today

and show you his purpose and pleasure over his children

taking time to truly rest in him.

Welcome to the First of Teen podcast. Today's scripture comes from Matthew 11, 28 through 30.

Jesus says, come to me all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you

and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,

for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. One of the simple core values of restored relationship with our Heavenly Father is arrest.

From the beginning, God exemplified its importance.

Genesis 2.3 says, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,

because on it God arrested from all his work that he had done in creation.

In Hebrews 4 9 through 13 says,

So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

For whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from His works as God did from His.

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the

division of soul and of spirit, of joints, and of

marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart, and no creature is hidden from

his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

I fear that we, as children of God God have allowed the busyness and stress of the

world to influence us in greater ways than the living and active word of our Heavenly Father. You and I are

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