Do you take time to rest? If so, how and where do you find solitude? My husband and I find our time to unwind in Galena, Illinois. It is not often that we are able to take off, but when we do, we find sweet renewal to our exhausted, worn out mind and body.
Saturday I was intensely convicted that at every week's end we are to take the time to 'rest'. Not just when we are away. The 4th Commandment out of ten to be exact. "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter.......For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." Exodus 20:8-11.
Well there you have it. Plain and simple. So why do we find it so hard? Now I know that we all have our deadlines to be met, chores to be done, athletic events to attend, but what happened to having Sundays just being a simple day set aside for family and the ones that you love? For taking time to rest up thus being revamped and able to reassess what tomorrow brings? So many suffer today from stress, anxiety, and depression. Perhaps there is a reason why God made the seventh day to be kept one of unwinding and relaxation.
"I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in each year." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834
