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Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28

Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks this invitation to those who are burdened by sin, guilt, and the stresses of this fallen world.  Jesus has taken up the cross for you and calls you to follow, so that you might learn from Him. His gentle, lowly way reveals that God’s purposes are not to burden or trouble you, but to give you rest for your soul. Each day He says, “Come to me.”

Daily Rest is a daily devotion book inviting readers to come to Jesus, learn of His gentle and lowly ways, and find rest for their soul. Daily Rest is published quarterly by the Church of the Lutheran Confession with devotions supplied by a volunteer staff of CLC pastors and teachers.

Today’s Daily Rest Reading

2024-10-30 Standing Strong at Worms (Varms)

Reformation Week Take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand! Ephesians 6:13 Have you ever had your words challenged in… 

2024-10-29 Finding Peace in the Tower

Reformation Week “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 It is discouraging to fail—a final test, a last-second shot, a broken promise. Martin Luther was fearful… 

2024-10-28 Searching for Peace in Erfurt

Reformation Week In Him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28a Not one person is here by accident or luck. No one walks through life hidden from the Lord’s view or beyond… 

2024-10-28 Searching for Peace in Erfurt

Reformation Week In Him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28a Not one person is here by accident or luck. No one walks through life hidden from the Lord’s view or beyond… 

2024-10-26 Weekend Rest Journal

1. The Prophet Isaiah says: “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may… 

2024-10-25 A Harvest of Graves

Harvest “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed.… 

2024-10-24 The Farmer Who Sleeps In

Harvest “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how.… 

2024-10-23 The Lord Puts You to Work

Harvest And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day?”  They said to him, “Because no one hired us.” He… 

2024-10-22 Resurrection Food

Harvest So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks. … They also had a few small fish; and having blessed them, He said to set… 

2024-10-21 Watering the Earth

Harvest In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Gen. 1:1-2…