We love accomplishing things. Perhaps, like me, you use a digital To Do List. It is immensely satisfying clicking that little tick box, and having the satisfaction of having accomplished something else.
It can be addictive.
We can end up working so hard in order to have achieved something, that we miss out on the actual achieving!
We’re really good at being busy. The church excels at this, sadly. I think we sometimes feel that if we work really hard then, perhaps, God will love us more, or we’ll feel less guilty about something else.
And, yet, there is a pattern of working and resting that was set in stone by God, when He made the world in 6 days, resting on the 7th.
That cycle of working and resting is important!
During World War II, it was discovered that the human body can only go for so long, at a heightened state of ’working’ (in that case patrolling an enemy jungle) before the soldiers would simply drop down dead. They had been perfectly healthy, but as convenient as it was to have them patrol for longer, because it was so complicated to get soldiers in, and out of their patrol areas, it also wasn’t healthy for them.
It was realised that they actually do need periods of rest, in order to be able to function.
Many of us won’t have to work to those sorts of extremes. But the truth, and the principle doesn’t change.
Working without rest is, ultimately, very unhealthy on our bodies and our minds.
Which is why resting can be such a proactive part of our working.
Just a thought…
Andy B
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