Knowing When to Stop

Here’s an honest question. Which is harder for you: a brutal workout, or a whole day of doing nothing? For some people, pushing hard is easy. Stopping is the real test.

If the thought of an empty afternoon makes you anxious, that feeling is worth listening to. It may show you where your trust is. Some of us feel safe only when we are producing.

God says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” Stillness isn’t laziness. It is a way of remembering who holds things together. Jesus said to his tired disciples, “Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.”

Discipline isn’t only about starting. Sometimes it is about stopping, on purpose, because you trust that God doesn’t stop when you do.