During this time of turmoil, How are you turning to Jesus for help and rest?

What a year! Do you even remember that we began 2020 with impeachment hearings? The arrival of coronavirus in March shocked our nation and the world to a stop! We have seen “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations, watched the take-over of an area in downtown Seattle, observed conflict over a Supreme Court Nomination, and we are still in the middle of an ugly election cycle. Yet, in the middle of all these confusing and troubling events, the big story continues to be COVID-19. People around the world had hoped that the upheaval caused by this virus might pass in a couple of weeks, or months. But, the infections and interruption of our lives from the coronavirus continue and even seem to be growing. And the confusion about what the virus is and how to confront this pandemic causes different opinions and even disagreements between friends, within families, and even in our Lord’s churches. What a year!

My devotions for Wednesday, October 28, focused on Hebrews 4, and spoke loudly to me about the turmoil we are facing. Would you personally like an end to the chaos we are experiencing? Do you desire rest from these troubles? Listen to these words of God.

“9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to