God's rest

SUMMARY: Augustine of Hippo said that his soul has no rest until it rests in God. Christians today should also seek rest in God, trusting in his Word and speaking to him in prayer. Man without God lives a cycle of death, juggling his own passions. Christians must shed feelings of guilt and frustration by confessing their sins to God. God's rest is found in knowing him more and more. In a world without clear purposes and eternal values, Christians have Christ and should let him govern their lives. Knowing God brings confidence and peace to the heart. Christians must not conform to the world, but be transformed by renewing their minds.

Augustine of Hippo expressed his inner world with a beautiful theological resolution worth taking into account: My soul has no rest until it rests in you. Could we Christians today say the same? There is no true rest and inner peace until the soul is pastured in the grace of the Lord and we assume that there is no better formula for spiritual well-being than to live peacefully in the arms of the Father, trusting in his Word, speaking to him in prayer.

One of the reasons why man does not find rest in the circumstances of daily life is because he does not have a reliable foundation to sustain himself. Man without God lives by juggling his own passions; one day good, another bad and the next worse. The life cycle of man without God is actually a cycle of death.