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This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
1 John 3:16, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing Christ paid for our eternal rest through His agonizing death because of His love for us.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures forever.
1 Chronicles 16:34, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, being thankful for and sharing His goodness and love that gives us est from fear and worry.
He protects his flock like a shepherd; he gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them in the fold of his garment. He gently leads those that are nursing.
Isaiah 40:11, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing we await the perfect rest of God’s loving care, walking in His guidance and to those who are wandering astray.
Nations will come to your light, and kings to your shining brightness.
Isaiah 60:3, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, taking His light to this dark world to show them rest from sin, anxiety, and fear.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time.
1 Timothy 2:5-6, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, sharing the rest from sin and anxiety found in the forgiveness and reconciliation of Christ.
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26, CSB
We work in this world to usher others into the rest of Christ, knowing He renews our hearts with His Holy Spirit, giving us rest from fear, hate, and trying to be good on our own.
“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28, CSB
God is love and desires to be with us, and He calls us to find peace and rest for our minds and souls in relationship with Him through Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit, giving us hope of eventual physical rest for eternity, as well.
God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.
Genesis 2:3, CSB
God is our Creator and example, showing us to rest regularly, to know when to stop a work and to enjoy what has been done.
And he replied, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Exodus 33:14, CSB
God is with us by His Spirit, comforting our souls with His rest and giving hope eternal rest from sin.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:15, ESV
God has prepared a rest for us through Christ, and because of His life, death, and resurrection, we know we can approach God without fear and with hope for that rest from the pains and temptations of this life.
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