Plowing And Rest (Daily Devotional)

Hi everyone, welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to spend a few moments in God’s word and pray together. Exodus chapter 34 and verse 21, ‘Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.’ Today’s verse about resting from plowing may seem to be buried in instructions about feasts, sacrifices and driving out of pagan nations. This command to rest even during the plowing season and harvest might seem illogical. As any good gardener or farmer knows, they are the busiest and most crucial times. Still for this and other good reasons, rest is important, rest is necessary. We also need to remember where real rest comes from. We can easily forget that toil and material success are not the goals in life. Knowing and enjoying God is also our purpose. God commanded worship, work and rest. We need to maintain a daily rhythm or a weekly rhythm of worship, work and rest. Every day we allocate sufficient time for each of them. We must maintain this rhythm all 7 days of the week. When we maintain this rhythm of worship, work and rest, we ensure that we avoid extremes of laziness or overworking. There will be days and sometimes weeks, where this rhythm maybe disturbed due to various situations, perhaps due to travel, tight project deadlines, other events, activities that demand our time. However, once this passes by, get back to a daily and weekly rhythm of worship, work and rest. Here are a few practical recommendations that we can follow. Be committed to what is important. Understand true value and have a value scale. Family time - enjoy these moments. Keep sure accounts, checks and balances. Guard your resources- time, energy and money. Rejuvenate yourself and plan ahead. Taking time to worship recreates for us a place of rest and refuge in our busyness. Without rest from work and time with God, we lose sight of the greater purpose we have in life. I want to end with this psalm, Psalms chapter 62, verse 1, ‘Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.’ Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for this time, we thank you for your word. As we have learnt, even as you have called us and designed us to work, you have also asked us to maintain this balance of work, rest and family. We thank you for giving us the wisdom to balance this so that we may glorify you in everything that we do, we thank you and praise you, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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