Devotion: Sabbath
Sabbath
Please take the time to read Mark 2:23-28
As I watched friends do major home and yard projects through 2020, I did precious little. I walked. A lot.
In my defense, I’m in a minimum maintenance situation at the moment. But it didn’t make me feel any less guilty that I wasn’t living my best pandemic life. I could have achieved more.
In Sunday’s sermon, when Pastor Greg shared the words of Pastor Greg Berger about how his work ethic had become his worth ethic; it resonated with me. Our society places a lot of pressure on what we accomplish. We are awarded badges and certificates and judge ourselves by human standards rather than God’s standards.
In this week’s lesson, we learn that the Sabbath was intended to help people and not to further burden them. It’s hard for us to understand because we were more than likely taught that the Sabbath was one day when Sabbath should be every day in worship to Him.
The point of Sabbath is to stop and just be – just be closer to God. And I think that’s hard for us to practice in our always-doing world. We “do” to escape, when we should escape to God.
So maybe I should give myself the grace to trust that those long Covid walks were just moments with God – a time to just think about my place in His world.
As the world starts turning again, I need to remember to find the time to just stop and be with God. It can only be good for me to grow in my relationship with Him.
Dear God,
Guide me to remember the Sabbath each day. Give me time to just stop and be with You knowing You love me for who I am and not all that I’ve done. Amen.
Written by Randy Hawthorne
Having a rivaled human network, Randy makes it his personal mission to connect those humans to their next big thing. Randy has decades of experience in the nonprofit industry, having served as a professional and volunteer in a variety of organizations.
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