While unconverted we lived unto ourselves. God was left out of our lives, or if He had any place in our thoughts it was that of a task-master to whom we must yield a tale of the bricks of good works—and if we professed to serve Him at all, it was with slavish fear.
In the gospel God makes Himself known He reveals Himself in love. By that love, told out in fullness in the cross of Christ, we are won. Then being justified by faith we have peace with Him, and a new life is given to us with new desires and aspirations. This life like the compass needle, turns ever to the same point.
The needle rests only when pointing to the magnetic north the believer rests only when joying in and living unto God.