Campus Community | Playlist Week 3

Overview:

We’ve been in various passages throughout Psalms since beginning our sermon series Playlist. So far we have learned about the power and confidence in placing our identity in Christ, and the raw emotion with which we get to approach him in prayer. This week we walk through the topic of “pace” out of Psalm 23. In Genesis, we see that the Lord rested after He created all things and in so doing modeled what our pace should be in life. We’ll learn how the Lord, as our Shepherd, makes us rest as a form of worship to Him and a reminder of our dependence on Him.

Verses:

Psalm 23: 1-2: The lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.

Genesis 2:1-3: Thus – the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Quotes:

“When God becomes our Shepherd, we get a new posture and a new pace.”

“As a messianic truth: Jesus is our rest.”

“God created our spiritual, mental, emotional & physical being to need rest and replenishment.”

“God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you.”  -Augustine

“Sabbath is an act of worship when our rest is in Him.”

“Rest is a God thing and a good thing.”

“God causes us to lie down to replenish not punish.”

“A good father knows that when his children don’t get rest they become a wreck!”

Questions:

1. Why did God create us to rest? How is resting an act of trust in God?
2. What is the difference between the world’s definition of rest and the Bible’s?
3. In what area of your life do you feel the most depleted?
4. What is preventing you from resting?  Fear? Friction with others? Needing to be “in the know”? Spiritual malnutrition?
5. What mental “apps” are constantly running in the background of your mind?
6. What “green pasture” have you been relying on that is leaving you lacking?