Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock and refuge right in the thick of our situation.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Courage encourages courage.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.