song of rest

At home in God's love: Cozy brick house with lights in windows, beside a canal lined with autumn-tinted bushes and trees. Two people enjoy a small dock at canal's edge. Two ride bikes across the stone bridge that spans the canal.

Now and forever: Resting in God’s love

Post published:January 8, 2022
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:March 27, 2024

Think of it! All that David experienced and described in Psalm 23 – all of it – is still flowing from God’s great love, in hot pursuit of you.

Two deer drink from a mountain stream that runs through a wooded valley beside a gray slat fence. A shaft of sunlight shines down from above.

My cup overflows: Resting in God’s favor

Post published:January 1, 2022
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:April 17, 2024

I praise you, Lord my Shepherd. You have overcome for me all the shame that ever has or ever will attach to me. You are teaching me to overcome it too. By your grace, I drink deeply of your favor, and it restores my rest.

Dark, narrow path through woods toward an opening into sunlight

I will fear no evil: Resting in God’s very present help

Post published:October 15, 2021
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:April 10, 2024

At times, David found himself in a very dark place. When he sang, “I will fear no evil,” he confessed: “Evil is real – but God’s ever-present help is greater.”

Standing between a peaceful canal and the walking path that follows its course, we look ahead to where the channel runs, with a row of stately trees on either side, and a green sunlit pasture lying to the right.

He restores my soul: Resting in God’s unforced rhythms

Post published:September 29, 2021
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:March 14, 2024

As we come to him, our Lord shows us: “Rest? It restores.” He teaches us a new rhythm that calms our life down and turns it around – an unforced rhythm that brings our soul back from the exhaustion where frenzy and fear rule.

Sun is rising above gray clouds, creating a white-yellow sky and bringing light to a misty valley between dark, forested mountains.

I shall not want: Resting in God’s provision

Post published:September 21, 2021
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:December 12, 2024

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,” sang David, the poet-king. Or in other words, “I lack nothing.” “The Lord hasn’t given us enough!” cried Joseph’s clan. We may know and love David’s words. Yet at times, it may seem that we lack a LOT. So what do we do with that?

A grassy footpath runs beside a quiet lake. Tall trees stand at the water's edge. A green pasture lies beyond the lake.

Psalm 23: Song of rest

Post published:June 6, 2016
Post category:From: Return to Your Rest
Post last modified:March 14, 2024

I hadn't previously thought it. But suddenly I knew: Psalm 23 is a song of rest – a song David started, but anyone can sing.