Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

We are starting a new devotional called Making Time to Rest in the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along with us.

As always, I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to read the Devo.

Let's do it.

The scripture is Genesis 2 verse 3 and it says this, In God blessed the seventh day and

declared it holy because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

I love it.

The devotional says, What does it mean to rest?

Our schedule seemed to be getting fuller with each passing month.

When we attempt to get together with friends, we are surprised that our next opening evening

is over a month away.

Here are kids activities, church events, work projects, birthday parties, and summer vacations.

We have programmed and planned our entire lives, leaving little to no room for anything that

might remotely rejuvenate us and offer us rest.

Too often we think that rest means we should be lazy.

It means we can totally chill out at home and do absolutely nothing.

While there may be an element of that in our restful times, that is not the whole story.

Rest is about recovery.

It is knowing when we are drained, exhausted, and need to breathe deeply for a while.

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