{"id":33833,"date":"2021-05-03T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33833"},"modified":"2021-05-03T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:16:17","slug":"its-okay-to-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33833","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Okay to Slow Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Rest-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To honor the theme of today\u2019s post\u2014slowing down\u2014I\u2019m going to write a brief blog.<\/p>\n<p>In our driven, Western Christian world, we often don\u2019t know how to slow down. We fail to rest. More than that, when we do slow down, guilt (false guilt) often overcomes us, shaming us for taking a brief break to rest, recuperate, and refresh.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Jesus Models Slowing Down from \u201cPeople Activity\u201d to \u201cWithdraw\u201d for Time Alone<\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1.6rem;\">\u00a0<\/strong>  \u201cVery early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed\u201d (Mark 1:35).   \u201cBut Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed\u201d (Luke 5:16).   \u201cJesus withdrew with his disciples to the lake\u201d (Mark 3:7).   \u201cJesus went out to a mountain side to pray, and spent the night praying to God\u201d (Luke 6:12).   \u201cWhen Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been beheaded, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place\u201d (Matthew 14:13).   \u201cBecause so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, Jesus said to his disciples, \u2018Come with me by yourselves to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our driven, Western Christian world, we often don\u2019t know how to slow down. We fail to rest.<br \/>\nThe post It\u2019s Okay to Slow Down appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,3936,3937,3938],"class_list":["post-33833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-rest","tag-slow-down","tag-slowing-down","tag-solitude","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Rest-1-1.jpg?fit=320%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33841,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions\/33841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}