Which of the Ten Commandments...
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Which of the Ten Commandments do you think is the most important? You shall not
murder? You shall not steal?
Those are certainly important. But how about: Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work (vv. 8-9).
Keeping the sabbath probably seems far less important than murdering and stealing, but if we don't allow our body, mind, and spirit time to relax and restore itself each week, aren't we murdering our own good health? Aren't we stealing our own good health?
I like the title of Wayne E. Oates' book, Your Right to Rest. Many of us think that we have to keep working seven days a week or we'll never get caught up. Actually the reverse is true.
At the time of the Russian Revolution, the new leaders of the country said, "What? These peasants are working only six days a week? We'll make them work seven and get 1/6 more work out of them."
But it didn't work that way. Working seven days a week made the peasants so tired that they turned out less work each week.
Our Lord knows that each week you and I need a day of rest.
Those are certainly important. But how about: Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work (vv. 8-9).
Keeping the sabbath probably seems far less important than murdering and stealing, but if we don't allow our body, mind, and spirit time to relax and restore itself each week, aren't we murdering our own good health? Aren't we stealing our own good health?
I like the title of Wayne E. Oates' book, Your Right to Rest. Many of us think that we have to keep working seven days a week or we'll never get caught up. Actually the reverse is true.
At the time of the Russian Revolution, the new leaders of the country said, "What? These peasants are working only six days a week? We'll make them work seven and get 1/6 more work out of them."
But it didn't work that way. Working seven days a week made the peasants so tired that they turned out less work each week.
Our Lord knows that each week you and I need a day of rest.
