How often do you rest? When do you take time to be quiet and decompress? Do you do that regularly? Or only when you have worn yourself down to the point you are forced to rest? Have you not heard that God made the seventh day holy, a day of rest?
In our hurried and harried culture, resting can be seen as a weakness. For those professionals who are pursuing the corporate climb, there is no rest. We work long hours each week and spend long hours on recreation, but very little time resting as God intended.
God knows us better than we know ourselves. He made the seventh day holy and commanded a rest because he knows we need it. That rest is not just a physical rest. We also need a mental rest. We need a time to connect spiritually with God. We may chase after rest in many ways. We go camping, boating, have family picnics, go to sporting events, concerts, and any number of other entertaining and distracting activities.
But the rest God commanded was to sit quietly, connect with him, and renew ourselves. We cannot be renewed with continued activity. To be renewed, we must rest our mind, body, and soul. Think about it like this, the fastest way to recharge the battery on your smart phone is to turn it off while it is plugged in. The same is true for us. To recharge and renew ourselves, we must turn off the activity and plug into God.
I pray we all know that we need rest for our mind, body, and soul. I pray we make time to unplug from all the activity. I pray each one of us will plug into God regularly to recharge and renew ourselves. Rest your mind. Rest your body. Rest your soul. Unplug from activity. Plug into God.
Genesis 2:2-3 On the sixth day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
Marty Pressey 