Why is it so hard to “rest” - both physically and emotionally? Is the constant pull towards business and productivity actually our attempt to measure up to some invisible expectations? Somehow, all our progress and accomplishments still leave us feeling like it will never be “enough.” This message explores the concept of God's grace and how it can help us live full of peace and contentment.

Real rest comes not once you have accomplished or achieved or become “enough,” but when you’ve realized that you will never be, and instead, Christ is.

Romans 3:23-24, MSG

Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners…and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we’re in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 2:1-2, 4-5, 8-10, MSG

It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat.

But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.