Are you
exhausted, like so many women today? Is the very idea of Sabbath
rest foreign to you because you have so much you have to get done?
Denise
wants women to live with a sense of completion. She wants us to rest
and she takes us through fourteen passages in scripture to show us
how. These are biblical principles of rest. They remind us that
rest is not selfish. It is, in fact, very scriptural. “God,
himself, through his Word, gives us – today's Christian woman –
the right to rest!” (22)
Denise
highlights physical rest, mental and emotional rest, soul rest,
resting in prayer, heart rest, the rest from forgiveness, the rest of
contentment, the rest of commitment, resting in caretaking, resting
in beauty, harmony and peace, the rest of selected memories, resting
in friendship, resting in times of crisis, and the rest of heavenly
assurance.
Denise's
familiarity and understanding of scripture is profound. Her comments
on Col. 3:12-17 and Phil. 4:8 are wonderful. You can read this book
on your own as Denise has included personal suggestions that you can
practice alone. These personal suggestions are a wealth of ideas for
incorporating biblical rest into your life. You could also get
together with friends and do the Group Bible Study, also included at
the end of each chapter.
Regular
biblical rest is essential to a woman's health and faith. Denise
reminds us that biblical rest is a scriptural mandate, not a luxury.
Biblical rest is not a “waste of time” but is a God given way to
keep yourself living the deeply satisfying life God intended for you.
If you
think you are too busy to read this book, you need to read this book.
You will be blessed and empowered.
Denise
George has ministered to women through speaking, teaching, and
writing for more than three decades. She is the author of 25 books
and more than 1500 articles in both Christian and secular magazines.
She conducts writing seminars across the United States and teaches a
writing course at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. Her
husband, Dr. Timothy George, is the founding Dean of Beeson Divinity
School, theological advisor for Christianity
Today, and the author of more than 30 books.
You can
follow her at various places online:
Leafwood
Publishers, 224 pages. Publisher's product page.
I
received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher for the
purpose of this review.
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