Time to Rest

Day 5 : 96 Days to go

Today is Sunday. In most Christian churches this day was adopted as the ‘Day of Rest’, based on the seventh day of the Creation. Also, early Christians celebrated the day after the Sabbath as the day of Christ’s Resurrection and as such this day became a regular day for weekly meetings of Christians. It was later incorporated into the Western Calendar as the last day of a week.
Whichever the history of “Sunday”, biblical teaching is generally interpreted as requiring one day of rest after six days of work.

God is a God of Order. The very first thing we read about in the Bible is God creating the heavens and the earth. The very next thing he does is to ’switch on the light’ with the aim to create order on Earth, then he starts sorting things out: separating day and night, separating the sky from the water, separating sea from land. Only once he had ’cleaned up’ things on earth did he start with the creation of plants, sun and moon, all the creatures of the earth and finally our common ancestors Adam and Eve.

It took him six days to get this job done. Then, as we read in Genesis 2, he rested from all his work on the seventh day and he blessed it and ”made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done”. (Reference: New International Version on www.biblegateway.com)

After having been a workaholic for all of my adult life, I decided to go back to these biblical basics after my consulting business crashed down and I had to reinvent my life. Now I try to, once again as in my childhood and early youth, not work on Sundays. Instead, I have chosen to make this my day of rest. I’m absolutely determined to work smarter, not harder!

The only reason I’m writing this blog is to share this new habit with you and to encourage you to take some time to rest….

As you walk alongside me on this 100 Day Action Plan, you too will be learning to work smarter, not harder. So don’t worry about losing time.

Time rested may very well mean Life-Time and certainly Life-Quality gained!

In future Sunday blogs, I will simply post a thought or Bible verse that will inspire you to focus on the spiritual side of life. We all are made up, after all, of a body, mind, emotions and a spirit.

God bless!