We call it 'self-care' but sometimes it is just well-branded worship of comfort.
That is the quiet danger of our age. Consumer culture has repackaged worldliness as wellness, and we buy in without blinking. The candles, the routines, the curated aesthetic of peace. None of those things are inherently wrong. But when they become what we run to instead of God, the line between rest and idolatry gets dangerously thin.
1 John 2:15 says it plainly: "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them."
This is not about guilt. It is about honesty. Comfort is a gift from God, but it was never meant to replace Him. Discernment asks a simple question: am I being restored here, or am I hiding?
What in your life looks like rest but might actually be avoidance?