Reset

Bonnie Sala: When life feels like entirely too much, there’s an ancient practice that actually changes your brain. God called it rest. I’m Bonnie Sala with Reset.

The word reset means returning something to its starting point so it can function properly. God designed us to need exactly that. He named it Sabbath and commanded a rest every seven days, just as he rested after creating the world. In this overwhelming world, most of us need that reset not just weekly, but daily. Whenever we’re overwhelmed, if we’ll pause to remember who God is and who we are in him, something measurable shifts inside us.

A neuroscientist says intense prayer and meditation permanently change numerous structures and functions in the brain, altering your values and the way you perceive reality. Scripture invites us to do exactly that. It asks, "Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding."

This is the God we’re returning to. This is the infinite God who welcomes overwhelmed people like us. So today, pause and contemplate this beautiful prayer: May this day bring Sabbath rest to my heart and my home. May God’s image in me be restored. May the gravity of material things be lightened and the relativity of time slow down. May I know grace to embrace my own finite smallness in the arms of God’s infinite greatness.

You get tired. He does not. And there’s grace to rest in that. I’m Bonnie Sala. Ready to grow your faith? Discover practical tools and more at guidelines.org.