Finding True Rest in Christ | Bonus Episode with Samaritan's Purse

A special episode from "On The Ground with Samaritan's Purse" | We are a restless society. We seek after things in this world that we think will give us rest, but our true rest is in Jesus. Kristy sits down with Jeremy Zerkle, a staff chaplain at Samaritan’s Purse, to discuss what the Bible says about rest, and how we can rest in the Lord.

Life does not slow down, but we can—and we need to. To accomplish what God has set before us, we must find rest in Him and learn from Him. We can rest knowing that we are not God. But as Jeremy and Kristy discuss, we often start to rely on our own self-sufficiency.

“The problem is that we start to believe that the world sustains on us.” – Jeremy Zerkle

We pursue all kinds of things to physically rest. But the problem is that we are still restless when we make physical rest the priority. Jeremy talks about why God rested on the seventh day when He was creating the world and why we need the Sabbath. God created order, peace, and shalom. God never stops working, and He never will. 

“We stop to be reminded of the fact that I am not God, and I need that reminder so desperately because I can believe that in myself.” – Jeremy Zerkle

When things are hard and heavy, we have to get away and be with Jesus rather than cope in the world’s way of resting. A familiar Scripture from Matthew 11 speaks to this. We need to go to the Lord and lay our burdens at His feet. 

“Come to Me, all you 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.” – Matthew 11:28-30

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