SCRIPTURE: Exodus 20:8-10 MSG Work six days and do everything you need to do. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God, your God. Don’t do any work—not you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your servant, nor your maid, nor your animals, not even the foreign guest visiting in your town.
THOUGHT: When did resting become something that had to be legislated? The answer is a very long time ago. The rhythm of working and resting was lost, and God knew as he called and shaped a people to represent him that it had to be restored.
With another weekend upon us, it couldn’t hurt to reflect on the restorative and legislative purposes of Sabbath which have, again, been mostly lost. On the one hand, rest resets everything: humans, animals, equipment, and earth and on the other, worship loosens our grip on anything that holds us but God. Like tithing, Sabbath is an idea of God’s that is sacred and necessary to our rhythm if we really want to choose life, so that we and our children may live (Deut. 30:19 NIV).
PRAYER: We want to live, oh God, but we resist the idea that we can get ahead by resting. Forgive us, reset our hearts, minds and bodies, and help us really live.
Amy released a full-length book in early 2021, Walking When You’d Rather Fly: Meditations on Faith After the Fall. Maybe you’d like to check it out here.
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