Q: Trash Panda (JUCO)
PAX: Wanderer, Trash Panda (JUCO), Butterknife, Double Coat, Erector, Tooth Fairy, Data, Cheap Ride
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: mosey to track
THE THANG:
6 min on, 1 min recovery
3 min on, recovery to time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
I wanted to talk to you today about rest, particularly sabbath rest. I’m sure you’re familiar with the creation story, so I wanted to share from Genesis 2:2-3
“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”
Sabbath was a pretty unfamiliar word or practice to me until last year when our small group did a couple studies that went into more detail.
What is it?
Modeled after creation, God rested on the 7th day.
Time to set aside everything to stop, rest, delight, and worship.
Designed by God as a day to give yourself fully to delight in God’s world, in your life in it, and ultimately in God himself.
Historically, having free time used to be looked at as being for the wealthy. Now if you look at not only the wealthy, but most of culture, our lives are defined by busyness and how much can we do.
When you think about what does it look like, it won’t be the same for everyone and varies by stage of life and preferences. One quote I like is:
If you work with your hands, you Sabbath with your mind. If you work with your mind, you may prefer to Sabbath with your hands.
I sit at a desk for most of my work so getting out in nature or doing something active can be “restful” for me.
For my family, we just started making Sabbath a part of our routine over the last few weeks and try to start around 3pm on Saturday to 3pm on Sunday. We start with a family devotional. Then we have a family activity of some sort, meal together, and bedtime, Sunday is typically church, lunch, then individual rest time. We plan to incorporate gatherings with family or friends into our routine as well as it’s not just for individual families.
So I would challenge all of us to evaluate our lives, our busyness, and try to make Sabbath a weekly routine we lead our families through to realize everything we have and need comes from God.