Real Rest to Inspire Real Work

Beyond being a command for command’s sake, DJ was helping me to identify the gift that we have in the Sabbath.

In a sense, taking a Sabbath reminds us that we live in a spiritual as well as a material world. The “rat race-ness” we often get stuck in tethers us to the material world in such a way that work, tasks, and movement are flat-lined and uninspired. The Sabbath reminds us that all the ways we occupy our time find their meaning in the Lord and not in and of themselves.

DJ was helping me understand how taking a Sabbath to surrender and to commune with God allows our eyes to be restored to the One who gives meaning to all things. Our work is not an end in itself but points us back to the Creator.

And Steve was helping me connect to the reality that the Sabbath is a gift for us to remember the victory of Yahweh. To have the rest, especially when we are weary and downcast, to remember the battle is already won.