Healthy Things Reproduce.
01. REST WAS MODELED IN HOW GOD DESIGNED
Genesis 2:2 On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work.
02. REST WAS MODELED IN WHAT GOD DESIGNED
Genesis 1:3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:8 So the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:31 So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
03. REST WAS MODELED FOR WHO GOD DESIGNED
Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.
Psalm 23:1-2 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
04. REST WAS MODELED BY THE ONE WHO DESIGNED
Alice in Wonderland PIC “The hurrier I go the behinder I get”
Research that attempts to quantify the relationship between hours worked and productivity found that employee output falls sharply after a 50-hour work-week, and falls off a cliff after 55 hours—so much so that someone who puts in 70 hours produces nothing more with those extra 15 hours.
Wayne Mueller “If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath – our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us."
The sabbath is blessed.
Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
You were made to work.
Exodus 26: 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might."
Genesis 2:15 "the Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to keep it."
You're made to rest.
Take A Break FromWork
It takes hard work to work hard, and it takes hard work to rest well.
Hebrews 4:11Let us therefore make every effort to enter rest.
Mark 2:27.The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.
Matthew 11, "Are you tired? Are you worn out? Are you burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. Watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."
