Resting from life's pressure

After I gave my talk on mental health and well being for academics today, one of the audience pointed out something that I found quite profound and helpful.

A Sabbath day of rest is important. But by God's grace, Christians can rest from striving, perfectionism, pressure, anxiety, ....

The Rest God promises his people is much more than a weekly day to recuperate.

Hebrews 4 challenges and comforts Christians:

³For we who have believed enter that rest, ....although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.⁴For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

⁸For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. ⁹So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, ¹⁰for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.