Everyone knows that when you’re physically tired, you rest. But many people do not know how to rest emotionally.

When you start feeling anxious and restless, you begin looking for relief—entertainment, scrolling, eating junk, procrastinating, fantasizing, numbing, and more. These things distract, but they never take you to a place of deep, inner rest.

Finding deep inner rest is a solution to many problems. But in that deep emotional place lives failure, judgment, shame, and woundedness.

Accepting forgiveness precedes rest.

Jesus says, “You are forgiven. Enter My rest.”

Prayer

Father, help me accept the forgiveness You offer. I am desperate for deep, inner rest. Please help me take one small step in that direction today. I need Your rest and comfort. Amen.

Scripture on forgiveness-

“Then Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.’”
— Luke 23:34 (NIV)

Scripture on rest-

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
— Matthew 11:28 (NIV)