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Joshua Gregory Messages and SermonsAuthor: Joshua Gregory
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Through Every Season
Sunday, 15 December, 2024
In this culture in which we live – this Post-Industrial Western culture – we have developed the idea of retirement – That you can work until you get to a place that you no longer need to. That you will finally be able to relax and stop worrying – that things will just be taken care of. In a sense, that things will finally be easy and we can relax. We have somewhere absorbed the notion that we should be able to get to a place where we are able to be where we should be spiritually and emotionally. . .that we should just be able to stay there. But REST in this life is not the goal. Jesus's call to his apostles is not "find rest." It is "follow me." If we seek to follow Jesus, we will find rest when we need it most; if we seek rest, we may find ourselves in a state of dejection or depression or just simple laziness. God made you what He intended you to be, and your path is not necessarily the same as another person – even a revered brother or sister. Be careful that we don't look up to someone with respect and honor and then begin to assume that person's experience is the ideal – or what we should be striving for. We should not ever strive to experience another person's experiences – we are instead called to FOLLOW Jesus. Jesus had a different calling and path for each of his disciples. And he had a different calling and purpose for example, for Peter and Paul. Peter was such an integral part of the early church, and yet God chose to raise up another apostle who was very different than Peter – someone who was outside the religious system so that he might see the faults that were developing within it. Jesus Christ is the standard, and the one who upholds us.
