Thank God It's Monday // How to Not Burn Out

``Here's what holy actually means. The the word holy means set apart for a unique purpose. Set apart for a unique purpose. In this moment, God is setting one day of the week apart after all of our days of work for a unique purpose, for replenishment. He's setting it apart as a unique day where we're not gonna do any of our to dos. We're not gonna do the things we must do. We're gonna do the things that we want to do. We're not gonna do the things that drain us. We're gonna do the things that refill us. Again, this is how you were created. This is how I was created. [00:15:44] (34 seconds)  #HolyRestDay

But what we don't need is balance. What we need is to figure out healthy rhythms in our life in every season wherever it is that we're having to put more emphasis and and if we can figure out some rhythms that will lead to more joy and that will lead to more drive and that will lead to more energy in our lives. You and I, we were created. Think about this for just a second. You were created. You were designed by God to have daily, weekly, and yearly rhythms. [00:08:21] (30 seconds)  #RhythmsNotBalance

But Shabbat simply means to cease. It means to stop. It means to rest. We're told that God did two things. He blessed it and he declared that day holy. What does that mean? What do those two things mean? Well, first of all, blessing, the idea of blessing, it's a pretty common word in the bible. Right? We're if you've read the bible, you're probably pretty familiar with that word. In fact, it's so common that here we are at the very beginning of of Genesis chapter two and already, God has already blessed three things. [00:13:56] (30 seconds)  #ShabbatMeansRest

The early church also did not ignore the Sabbath. The early church still observed a regular day of rest and worship. They changed that day at that point from Saturday. The early church changed it to Sunday. The reason was very simple. Their savior Jesus had rose from the dead on Sunday and so they wanted to celebrate and rest and worship on that day that he rose from the dead and that tradition of celebrating and rest and worship and Sabbath on Sundays continued on for hundreds and a couple thousand years now all the way on to today. [00:24:33] (31 seconds)  #SundaySabbathTradition

Years ago, they started doing studies of higher ups in in big companies and the CEOs and high level management in big companies and those companies where those people took what they referred to as a free day, meaning there was a twenty four hour period every single week where they didn't do any work of any kind. They only did the things that were replenishing, only did the things that were reenergizing. They discovered that in those companies and in those managers, CEOs, all those higher up management, they discovered that taking that free day actually led to more creativity. It made them more productive. It gave it led to more ideas. And overall, in those organizations where those those management people were doing that, they discovered that the entire organization was improved as a result of it. [00:28:34] (49 seconds)  #FreeDayBoostsWork

The Sabbath for them was sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday. That was the twenty four hour period of rest and celebration for them and so on Friday, what they would do is they would prepare for the Sabbath. It was like a day of preparation. They would prepare and do all the things that they needed to do so that they could rest on the Sabbath. That was that was Friday for them. We think of our off days as okay, those are the days that we get done, the house projects and those things that's built up and the things that we didn't get to at work and you know, all that stuff. For them, no, they did it. They had a day of preparation for their Sabbath and so it would start on Friday, Friday evening, they would get together as of as their families, extended families, friends, they would get together and have an evening meal [00:18:04] (41 seconds)  #PrepareForSabbath

Which by the way, if you think about this, if God set aside the Sabbath as a unique day for rest and and rejuvenation and and things that we enjoy and intended for us as a gift, think about this, that means that healing is not work to God. [00:22:37] (20 seconds)  #HealingIsNotWork

Maybe you need a new job. Maybe it's necessary for you because you're in a toxic work environment. You're in a toxic work environment that's just not healthy and you know you need to get out of it, you know, maybe that's the case. Maybe that's necessary or maybe, you know, you're just you're not doing what you know you're gifted to do or what you're called to do or what it is that you should be doing. Like, it's just not the right fit or whatever. Maybe that's necessary. But what if getting a new job or trying to find something better is not actually going to resolve or fix the problem? [00:04:21] (31 seconds)  #FixInsideBeforeSwitch