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Rest: God Designed & Instituted


While on business, I called my husband to ask what the pressure should be on my tires.  He said, "Did you know it outlines that in the owner's manual in the glove box?"  I said, "O.k.  So what should the pressure be?"  He gave me the number while explaining the importance of knowing how to access and use the manual.

It is easier if he tells me.  My husband is the Cliff Notes!

If an operating manual is important for everything else then, don't we need one for us?

   The engineer, designer and creator sent directions to make our lives work better.  To help us maintain, manage and steward our bodies and our lives. "So it will go well with us."


"Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy." He tells us.

“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, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates.  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

God had just freed his people from slavery in Egypt.  He wanted things to go better for them.  Wanted them to remember that He is the deliverer. 

"Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day."  Deuteronomy 5:15

"For anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience. "  Hebrews 4:10-11


O.K.... HEATHER'S CLIFF NOTES.

  • God created the world and us in six days and then rested as an example to us.
  • God freed His people from slavery in Egypt and gave them the command to set aside a day for Him and for rest.
  • God uses this (typology as it is called) as a picture or illustration of something that is to come. A future rest.
  • God knows that we are easily ENSLAVED and need a day "away from it all" to refocus.  To remember who we are and where we have come from.
  • God knows our bodies, minds and our relationships work better when we do things according to His plan.
  • God knows that relationships need time to grow.   


Next step.  Doing it.

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