Performance vs Rest – When trying harder isn’t the answer
Free printable devotional (PDF)

If you feel like life is one long checklist—always hustling, always proving, never quite enough—this devotional is for you.

Performance vs Rest is a gentle invitation to step off the treadmill of “do more, be better” and remember that your worth was never meant to be measured by productivity, perfection, or approval.

It’s especially for the days when:

• You feel guilty any time you slow down

• Your value feels tied to grades, reviews, or what others think

• You assume God is more pleased with you when you’re “doing well”

• Rest feels lazy, selfish, or unsafe

Through honest reflection, Scripture, and a closing prayer, this devotional helps you:

• Recognize the subtle ways performance shapes your identity

• Remember that God’s love is received, not earned

• See rest as holy and needed—not weakness

• Begin shifting from “I must hold it all together” to “God is holding me”

What’s included:

• 1 printable devotional (PDF)

• 5–7 minute read

• Scripture-centered encouragement + guided prayer

• For personal use (you may reprint for your own use as often as you’d like)

This free devotional is part of the Ivory Road Resources collection—created to help you move from striving to resting in the love you already have in Christ.