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You Can Experience Rest If You Give Up What You Want

There is a strange comfort in clinging to what we want, even if it exhausts us. The human heart has a way of fastening itself to desires with a tenacity that feels reasonable and even noble. But the gospel insists that true rest does not come from getting what we want, but from surrendering what we want. This is the counterintuitive nature of the Christian life: you die to live, you give to gain, you lose to find, you release to rest. It is the beautiful, strange logic of Jesus Christ, whose very call to discipleship begins with the command to deny yourself. Read, Watch, Listen…

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