June 22
Learning to Rest in the Father’s Care
If there is one posture every child instinctively knows, it is rest. Not laziness. Not inactivity. Not neglect of responsibility. But rest—the deep, inner knowing that someone bigger, stronger, wiser, and more attentive is watching over them.
A child doesn’t worry about tomorrow’s meals. A child doesn’t calculate the family budget. A child doesn’t agonize over outcomes. A child doesn’t rehearse worst-case scenarios. A child rests because a parent carries the weight they cannot see or understand.
And similarly, childlikeness is not complete until we rediscover the ability to relax into the Father’s care— the kind of rest that Jesus described when He said in Matthew 11:28-30… “Come to Me … and you will find rest for your souls.”
Becoming Childlike Again: Page 93
If there is one posture every child instinctively knows, it is rest. Not laziness. Not inactivity. Not neglect of responsibility. But rest—the deep, inner knowing that someone bigger, stronger, wiser, and more attentive is watching over them.
A child doesn’t worry about tomorrow’s meals. A child doesn’t calculate the family budget. A child doesn’t agonize over outcomes. A child doesn’t rehearse worst-case scenarios. A child rests because a parent carries the weight they cannot see or understand.
And similarly, childlikeness is not complete until we rediscover the ability to relax into the Father’s care— the kind of rest that Jesus described when He said in Matthew 11:28-30… “Come to Me … and you will find rest for your souls.”
Becoming Childlike Again: Page 93