Original Entry:
January 30, 2012
McMinnville, OR
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had
been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Genesis 2:2
We are living in the
Technological Renaissance. With Technology
comes speed and heightened expectations to respond. American men live, work, and lead faster than
men in any other time of world’s history.
A potential fallback of our fast lives is a lack of Sabbath. The good man who accepts his responsibilities
often feels a sense of guilt when at rest.
This shouldn’t be.
“But I am too busy to
take a day off.”
God would argue that
men are too busy NOT to take a day off.
The harder a man works the greater need he will have for rest. God, the
creator of the universe, offers the greatest example of the principles of Sabbath.
God rested. We call this Sabbath. God took one day off. God sat back, rested his head in is arms, and
enjoyed all he had made; every galaxy, solar system, planet, animal, human, cell, atom, and every
thought (Psalm 139).
Was God
exhausted? Was he tired? Did God need the rest?
No.
The Almighty God of the
universe took Sabbath as an example. Jesus said it best, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath” (Mark
2:27-28).
Take a full day off
every week of your life. You need the
rest to finish your life as the man you were created to be.
Take one full day off
every week for Sabbath.
