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When the world tells us rest is lazy, God calls it holy.
TONIGHT’S SCRIPTURE
“So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation” (Genesis 2:2-3, NLT).
SOMETHING TO PONDER
I never thought rest was a gift.
After over a decade of trauma, my mind was constantly running. Anxiety gripped my heart, and fear filled my mind like an overflowing coffee cup. There was always another task to complete, devotion to write, or a habit I needed to implement to live my best life. Resting was the eleventh plague. Based on everyone’s actions around me, they thought so, too. Who has time to rest?
Exodus 20: 8–11 is perhaps the most broken commandment in our generation: “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy” (Exodus 20:8, NLT). Why? Because each week, “You have six days for your ordinary work,” (Exodus 20:9, NLT), and for most of us, eight hours a day barely makes a dent in our to-do list.
Without a thought, we toss the rest of this passage like an optional piece of candy: “But the seventh day is a Sabbath day of rest dedicated to the Lord your God…” (Exodus 20:10, NLT). Who needs Sabbath, we ask ourselves. This is the 21st century, we retort. But maybe those who ignore this command most need it more than anyone else—myself included.
