Latest / Prayer Before Work / S01E10-You Were Never Meant to Run This Hard
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- Sean Graver: Hey, welcome back. Are you tired? Maybe not in a way you'd say out loud, but maybe it's in there. The pace has been high. Your margin has been low and somewhere along the way the days have started to blur together a little. Well, this message today is for that. So take a deep breath. You're in the right place. So Matthew 11 28 says, come to me all who are weary and burdened. and I will give you rest. Simple, direct. And notice he doesn't say, come to me and I'll give you a plan. Or I've got a new strategy for you. Or here's this new morning routine you've got to try. Now he says rest. That's the offer. And he makes it to the weary and burdened specifically. Not to people who've got it all together, but to people who are running on empty. And here's something that takes a while to really believe. rest is not a reward for finishing. It's a rhythm built into the design. mean God rested on the seventh day but not because he was tired but because he was modeling something we were going to desperately need. Now in work culture, busyness gets treated like a badge of honor. The person who never stops, that's the committed one. But Jesus draws a straight line between a driven, unrestored pace and being burdened and then he calls it what it is and offers the alternative. You don't have to earn the right to slow down. The invitation is already open. So Jesus, I'm taking you up on the offer. I come to you this morning, a little weary, maybe more than I've admitted, and I'm asking for rest and not just sleep, but the deep kind, the kind that restores something on the inside. Help me to stop treating rest like something I have to earn. Help me build it in as an act of trust, trusting that the work will still be there, that you'll hold what I can't, and that I'm actually more useful to the people around me when I'm not running on fumes. Today, help me work from a rested place instead of working toward one. That's a different thing entirely, and I need your help to live it. Thank you that your invitation is always open. Amen. All right, now go make today count.