Easy Like Sunday Morning

"You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the seventh day you must stop working. This gives your ox and your donkey a chance to rest. It also allows your slaves and the foreigners living among you to be refreshed. - Exodus 23:12

Has the Sabbath day become obsolete? Must we always get back to the "grind"? And is that philosophy causing your business to really grow any faster? 

I've been sitting here pondering today. We want all the blessings that God promises (I know I do) but yet we are not willing to adhere to all the stipulations. Now, I don't want to get "religious" here and say that you can "never" do anything on the Sabbath day. Jesus squashed that idea with the Pharisees when he declared, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath". That gave us the liberty to do some tasks considered to be "work" on a Sabbath day and not be put to death. However, I'm beginning to wonder if we haven't taken even that liberty to the extreme. We now boast in our work ethic 24/7. We proudly announce that we will disobey God in this while expecting his continued blessing for our lives and businesses.

What are the benefits of resting? Well, clinically speaking, here are a few benefits listed by the Florida Hospital:

a. Improved Memory - lack of sleep can make it difficult for you to concentrate and retain information. When you sleep, the brain does its thing to improve memory formation.

b. Maintain a healthy weight - sleep and metabolism are controlled by the same area of the brain. Sleep releases hormones that control appetite.

c. Heart health - studies found that C-reactive protein, which is associated with heart attack risk, was higher in people who got six or fewer hours of sleep at night.

d. Reduce stress - sleep and stress have similar affects on your cardiovascular stress. 

Being well rested can reduce stress levels and improve overall health.

See more (excerpted from Florida Hospital)

Just maybe God was on to something when he instructed man to work six days and rest on the seventh. He even showed us that it could be done by demonstrating it himself. The greatest CREATOR of all worked six days, and on the seventh he rested. There just might be something to it.

Happy Sunday and happy resting!

EJ Melvin

MarketPlace Apostle

P.S.

Resting helps avoid "burnout". Google it.

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