Rest isn’t just about gaining our strength, but it’s also about trust. ![]() The world around us operates in relationship with this natural clock, and we, as part of creation, need to as well. The world runs on a very specific rhythm. God wove rest into the fabric of creation. If we don’t get enough of it, we can experience long-term health problems and a shortened life expectancy. In Christ therefore, I have the joy of the Lord.Rest is so crucial to our wellbeing. In Christ, my suffering will be ended by His death and resurrection. What a wonderful redemption! Because God suffered for us in Christ’s death on the cross, your suffering because of sin will come to an end because Jesus died and rose from the dead for you.Īre you suffering physically today? Are you anxious? Do you feel that nobody cares? God suffered for us so that our suffering in sin and death will be put to an end by Jesus’ death and resurrection. It is called the “redemptive” emotion of God. God chose to be affected by human nature when He became human in Jesus. The affection of God is the inclination of God according to His perfect nature. Or I am inclined to worship God on Sunday. Inclination is like-I am disposed to love my wife and not my ex-girlfriend. Affection is the inclination of God that is governed by God’s will. The reason is that God operates according to His own sovereign will.īut God has affection. God has no such passion that can be provoked by our actions. God has no passion but God has affection. One way to explain the impassibility of God is in terms of passion and affection. The Bible says that God loves us (John 3:16). Yet the impassibility of God does not mean that He is unfeeling. But God does not receive and react to the action of others because He acts according to His perfect will and nature. We receive and react to the action of others. God’s existence is entirely dependent on Himself. This is because God foreknows, wills, and chooses all things by Himself and not by the actions of others. God is not affected by our actions in the same way that we are affected by others. ![]() The word impassible is from the Latin, in, “not,” and passibilis, “able to suffer or experience emotion.” Impassibility means that God cannot be affected emotionally by the actions of people. In theology, there is the impassibility of God. What are you thinking today? Are you thinking of your family? Are you worried that food prices are now more expensive? Are you depressed? Are you worried about your job or business? God listens to your every thought. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether” (vv. David said “O LORD, you have searched me and known me!. David said in Psalm 139, “My frame was not hidden from you. Before you were born, God knew you intimately. Yet the Bible says that God is mindful of you. That’s how extremely big our universe is! But the earth is so small in comparison to the whole universe.Įven you-you are just one of six billion people on earth. The billions of planets, stars, and galaxies comprise the whole universe. Our Milky Way galaxy is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. ![]() Our sun is just one among billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The earth goes around the sun at the speed of 107,000 kilometers per hour. The universe is extraordinarily big! Right now the moon goes around the earth at the speed of 3,683 kilometers per hour. Psalm 8 says, “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” (vv.
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