{"id":3947,"date":"2025-10-04T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2025-10-04T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:33:58","slug":"the-way-of-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=3947","title":{"rendered":"The Way of Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThus says the LORD, \u2018Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.\u2019\u201d<\/span> (Jeremiah 6:16)<\/p>\n

Three commands confront us right away: \u201cStand,\u201d \u201clook,\u201d and \u201cask.\u201d \u201cStand\u201d<\/span> means position yourself intentionally. Do it \u201cby the roads,\u201d where one might travel when one finds direction to the sought-out place. \u201cLook\u201d <\/span>means search, heighten your senses, seek, and be intentional about what it is you seek after. \u201cAsk\u201d <\/span>means don\u2019t be passive; actively search, inquire, poke about, be willing to learn from another.<\/p>\n

And what is it for which you search? Seek \u201cthe ancient paths.\u201d The tried-and-true ways. The ways where those godly ones who have gone before us walked. The proven paths. Those \u201cpaths\u201d that Abraham, Moses, David, Samuel, Joshua, and all their kind have shown to us. Avoid the trendy and faddish, the passing and unproven. Get basic. Get utilitarian. Not \u201cwhat\u2019s cool,\u201d but what works.<\/p>\n

Works for what? Where you \u201cfind rest for your souls.\u201d \u201cWhere the good way is.\u201d There! There! \u201cWalk\u201d<\/span> in that \u201cway\u201d! This, then, is a fourth command. This is not optional if it is \u201crest\u201d of soul that you truly seek.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, lead me in the ancient paths, in the good way, where my soul will find rest. Simplify things. Give me one desire. Give me the tried-and-true, the proven and faithful, the enduring ways. Yes, give me yourself. For you, Lord, are \u201cthe way.\u201d You are my true desire and rest. Give me yourself, and I shall be full. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThus says the LORD, \u2018Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.\u2019\u201d (Jeremiah 6:16) Three commands confront us right away: \u201cStand,\u201d \u201clook,\u201d and \u201cask.\u201d \u201cStand\u201d means position yourself intentionally. Do it \u201cby the roads,\u201d where one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[99,96,37,21,66,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discipleship","category-hope","category-jeremiah","category-miscellaneous","category-peace","category-revival","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-11F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}