Honoring the Sabbath: Rest, Trust, and Letting Go

Not because we can earn anything. Not because we can do anything or fix anything, but because we are loved. We desperately need to learn in our bodies, not just in our brains that that God looks at you and he says, I did the work you couldn't do. I created you because I wanted you. I love you because I love you. We need it. So do nothing that feels like work and do not try to accomplish anything. [00:51:43] (30 seconds)  #LovedNotEarned

Work hard. Keep working. Look at the ant. It actually says, look at the ant you sluggard which is the old way of saying quit being lazy. Work hard. In fact, throughout the book of Proverbs, one of the things we are consistently told not to be is a lazy person. We are told as followers of Jesus, we're told as people of God to work and to work hard. That's why it says six days you were given to labor and do all your work. So the Sabbath is not the day where we get to just lie around because we don't get a lot done. It's the day in which we don't work because we already did it all. [00:35:00] (40 seconds)  #WorkHardRestWell

You get to rest. A nine day work week with a tenth day to rest. It was horrible. It was absolutely awful. Productivity in society tanked. The workers got angry and and upset. They were exhausted and burnt out. It it wasn't just that they were no longer able to go to Sunday lunch at mom's house. The productivity in the industries dropped. Why? Because humans working more hours are not more productive. [00:41:03] (28 seconds)  #OverworkHurtsProductivity

Can you trust? Because here's the thing, a lot of us, we can't sit still and and we don't know this. We wouldn't say it out loud. We don't think these words. But it's because we're convinced that if we're not productive, then we don't matter. We're convinced that people like us and they want us around because we're helping. Because we're making a difference, because we're doing something. And we can't sit still because we feel like we're just taking up space if we're sitting still. And here's the thing, what you have to know, what you have to learn through the Sabbath is that Jesus Christ accomplished your salvation, not you. Why? Because he loves you and you couldn't accomplish anything. He loves you even when you were living in sin and the only thing you were accomplishing was pain and sorrow and sin in the world. He loves you no matter what, and we need to learn that I can sit here and not do anything and just be loved by God. I don't earn his love. I don't earn my place in my family. [00:47:37] (52 seconds)  #WorthBeyondProductivity