Nĩarahurũkire

When I was young, I used to hear adults say "nĩarahurũkire" when someone died and it would never make sense to me. What do you mean he rested? He literally died!

Not until adulting hit me like a bomb 💣! Rest. Kũhurũka started making all the sense.

When you are a child, you literally don't rest. Children are forever full of energy - only pausing to drink water or eat while coughing out their intake! Yikes!

In fact, you'll know a child is unwell when they are immobilized on the couch, not moving a single limb, and not munching anything. And that's worrying.

Then comes adulthood - it's a wild goose chase. One is forever moving, chasing shadows, working to make ends meet, and the daily, constant role of solving other people's problems.

It can be overwhelming! All of a sudden it makes sense why God created the Sabbath! He says the Sabbath was created for man! So that man could rest. God Himself rested from the work of creating on the seventh day. What a better example?

Rest brings renewal. Rest slows you down so that you can go faster. Rest resets you. Rest ignites restlessness! You dream when you rest. You create when you rest. You grow when you rest. You need to rest!

Then there is the eternal rest- nĩarahurũkire. When you transition from this earthly mortal state and you enter an eternal spiritual state, then you rest. You rest from the worldly chase. You rest from illnesses, sorrow, grief, brokenness, brokeness, and every other evil thing in the world.

To be in Christ is to rest in eternal glory. It is to await the manifestation of the Son of God and the Kingdom of God - a kingdom of total restoration. In fact, a new kingdom. New in every way. A kingdom where the mortal and perishable body won't see the day! Do you long for this kind of rest?

Hurũka thaayũ- is it even possible to attain this type of rest outside of Christ. Can your spirit truly rest if you've not been secured in Christ through His justification? However you look at it, we will still say to those who've gone ahead of us- mũrohurũka thaayũ!