Sabbath and Rest: Augustine on Rest in God
Teaching on Sabbath and Rest from Augustine of Hippo: Augustine on Rest in God
This is a spiritual discipline on rest in God and peace, drawing on Psalm 62:1, Matthew 11:28-30 and Hebrews 4:9-11.
Augustine's entire theology can be read as a meditation on rest. "You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You." For Augustine, all human striving, anxiety, and labor point to a fundamental displacement: we are made for God, and until we find our rest in Him, nothing else will satisfy. In the final book of the Confessions, Augustine meditates on the seventh day of creation: "Lord God, grant us peace, for You have given us all things -- the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which has no evening."…
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