FINDING SOUL REST

40 DAYS OF CONNECTING WITH CHRIST

A DEVOTIONAL

CURTIS ZACKERY

KIRKDALE PRESS

Finding Soul Rest: 40 Days of Connecting with Christ

A Devotional

Copyright © 2020 Curtis Zackery

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The Truth must dazzle gradually

Or every man be blind—

EMILY DICKINSON

CONTENTS

Invitation to Rest

1 In and Down

2 Taste and See

3 The Joy of My Salvation

4 The Rest in the Gospel

5 True Soul Rest

6 Identifying Idols

7 A Lighter Load

8 Feel Your Feelings

9 Devour the Word

10 A Noisy Gong

11 Rooted

12 Be Still and Know

13 No Matter What

14 The Original, Shimmering Self

15 His Ways Are Higher

16 Where’s My Help?

17 A Masterpiece

18 Run/Walk Method

19 Under Control

20 Plugged In

21 Tilling the Soil

22 Learning to Lament

23 Letting God Take Care of You

24 One Another

25 Where Are You Planted?

26 A Hidden Life with God

27 Life Shapes Our Theology

28 Your People

29 Lightning and Thunder

30 Trust Fall

31 Grand Silence

32 Complete, Lacking in Nothing

33 Can/Should

34 Refreshing

35 Living Hope

36 Resting Isn’t Lazy

37 Open Your Hands

38 Living Sacrifice

39 Extra Baggage

40 A Word in the Wilderness

INVITATION TO REST

When it comes to learning something new or accomplishing a goal I’ve set for myself, I have a natural tendency to try to expedite the process. Usually, that includes looking for a book or some resource that will explain in short order what I need to know. That way, I can cut down on the time it will take to endure the process and get to the end much quicker. Maybe you have come to this book with the same hope. Unfortunately, I don’t think it will meet your expectations.

To accomplish what the book’s title suggests, finding soul rest, we need to know that the only path to do so is found in the subtitle: connecting with Christ. My hope is that this book is an onramp to substantive introspection and time with God, so that he can provide what we really desire.

Some of us reading this are realizing that we have experienced burnout or are simply at the end of our rope. Others of us are reading because we never want to ...