Resting in Christ
Charles Spurgeon and Chuck Swindoll highlight the importance of finding rest in Christ.
In this message, Charles Spurgeon and Chuck Swindoll highlight the importance of resting in Christ.
Charles Spurgeon: Our heavenly Father will supply the wants of his own children, and he knows what we have need of before we ask him. We can therefore go to our beds at the proper hour and not wear ourselves out by sitting up late to plot, plan, and create. If we have learned to rely upon our God, we shall not lie awake with fear gnawing at our hearts. Instead, we shall leave our care with the Lord, our meditation on him shall be sweet, and he will give us sleep.
Chuck Swindoll: I have never seen a gravestone that reads, “He died of worry,” but some of them ought to read that way. How many illnesses are directly connected with our worries, our anxieties, trying to take the responsibility that was designed for God to handle. If you can’t handle it, why are you trying to handle it? If you can’t change it, why are you worrying about it? But we do, don’t we? We may even know people who become worried when they don’t have something to worry about.
Resting in Christ means handing over tomorrow’s troubles, today’s pressures, and even the habit of worrying when there is nothing immediate to worry about. In that surrender we discover the freedom to live, serve, and sleep in the peace that only the gentle and humble Savior can give.
