Vacation

 Rest is something that is hard to truly find this side of eternity.  I just got back from a week and a half vacation.  But I did not get back from a week and a half of rest.  Even vacation is work.  You have to pack the right stuff, remember the right stuff, move the right stuff in and out of the car into and out of the places you will be staying, you have to work hard to organize all of the details to make sure you have a place to stay.  Sure it is less work than working (or maybe different work than working) but when you get back all of your work is still there.  

Even resting can be exhausting at times.

Which is why I am so thankful that God promises us rest.  Not temporary rest.  Not slightly better rest.  But rest.  Where we will no longer have to put out energy to make our lives liveable.  A rest that allows us to spend our time and energy where it ought to be - in worship, adoration and praise of the God who made us.  I do not think this means an absence of work - but an absence of difficult, unrewarding, unfulfilling work.  The work that we do will be accomplishing the purpose for which work was designed - to image God properly.  And that work will be work we need no rest from!

May God haste the day when we can rest, truly rest, in Him.