Today is Monday and I am taking the day off. (I am taking tomorrow off too; call it a “Sabbath”). Since ministers, hospital staff, police and rescue personnel, (also restaurant and mall employees) usually work on Sundays, they have to take other days off instead.
I confess that I have not done very well with taking “time off”; and my family would probably say that I haven’t done that well with “vacations” either. Part of the problem comes from the strong “work ethic” that was instilled in me by my father. Our Heavenly Father sure has given us a lot to work on, and yet He is the one demanding that we take a break every week! Add to that the underlying pressure in our American culture to “produce or perish!” (All this can be rather confusing…and tiring.)
In Mark 2:27 Jesus said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath”.
“The Sabbath was made for man, as a day of rest and refreshment for the body and of blessing to the soul.” (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
When the Lord God rested on the 7th day, it wasn’t because He was “tired”. He was just “taking a break” from His work. He was being “refreshed”, and that sure sounds very appealing to me! (I’d better get to work now on taking my break…)
I confess that I have not done very well with taking “time off”; and my family would probably say that I haven’t done that well with “vacations” either. Part of the problem comes from the strong “work ethic” that was instilled in me by my father. Our Heavenly Father sure has given us a lot to work on, and yet He is the one demanding that we take a break every week! Add to that the underlying pressure in our American culture to “produce or perish!” (All this can be rather confusing…and tiring.)
In Mark 2:27 Jesus said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath”.
“The Sabbath was made for man, as a day of rest and refreshment for the body and of blessing to the soul.” (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
When the Lord God rested on the 7th day, it wasn’t because He was “tired”. He was just “taking a break” from His work. He was being “refreshed”, and that sure sounds very appealing to me! (I’d better get to work now on taking my break…)
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