AS ordinarily considered, rest, like time, is a relative condition of the human mind. Its nature and requirements differ greatly with different persons and circumstances. Thus, what to one individual seems excessive, fatiguing activity is restful to another. And work that has been regarded as burdensome may, through a change of thought, become a source of peace and blessing.
That rest, in its highest sense, may be deemed a desirable spiritual state is seen in the Bible, which indicates that God, Spirit, rests in the completeness of His creation (see Genesis 2:2, 3). And the counsel (Ps. 37:7), "Rest in the Lord," indicates that the creation rests in the creator.
True rest, then, is something quite different from what mankind generally believes it to be. Of Spirit it is written (Ps. 90:1, 4), "Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations," and, "A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past." Since the real man exists eternally in the divine Mind as its image— its idea or expression—rest assured that we can, here and now, reflect more of Mind's dominion over the limited human concepts of time and rest.
