Rest

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Sometimes I go 7 days a week 24-hours a day on call ready to go sleep with my clothes on with my boots next to the bed for months. Even on the sabbath

 I say I’m picking corn referencing the apostles when the Pharisees accused them of working on the sabbath (Matthew 12:1-8). Today I felt like God strongly compelled me to

rest. I think we are free to do what we need to on the sabbath. It was given as a gift, a day no one can oblige you to do anything. I also think of how in the past rest was so important you would be executed for doing any work on the day of rest. Six days of work and 1 day of rest is the ideal. Imagine no lights (fires) were allowed. You could not travel. You were supposed to be still and rest. Not working is one thing but to be totally still with no lights or distractions for a whole day just focusing on rest is something else. Imagine turning off all phones, screens, electronics, every beeping or flashing thing for one day every week. No cooking, or any chores, only eating what you had already prepared. A total reset each week. I haven’t reached that level of tranquility on my own, especially mentally. Shutting my mind down for a day each week is the hardest part. However, this is how we were made and how we were made to operate. So that means you should be able to get so much done for yourself and ever

yone else that one day you just totally recharge and reset. No one can ask you to do anything and you can’t ask anyone else to do anything. It seems quite boring outside of the context of family. You disconnect from the outside world and reconnect with family. Building a fire was a lot more work than turning the lights on in a house so it’s not exactly the same but the idea was to put everything aside. And referring to light, 1 Kings 8:12 says “12 Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.” When you are in darkness, you emanate light. We may not reach the ideal and have to pick corn sometimes, but having a day set aside for rest and acknowledging it as a gift from God is beneficial to the mind, body, and spirit.

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