Working From Rest (Johnson)

Published: June 20, 2021, 10 a.m.

We have be led to believe that if you\u2019re not working, working, working, you\u2019re somehow falling, falling, falling behind. What used to be a 9-5 day, forty-hour week, has now morphed into a 7-7 day and a 65 hour week! Even retirees will say \u201cI\u2019m working now more than ever!\u201d That kind of non-stop work was never God\u2019s plan for us. Work hard? Yes! Work diligently? Absolutely! But work yourself into the ground? Never. God calls us to Sabbath...God calls us to rest. And for the Christian, we work from our rest, we don\u2019t rest from work. We start our week with rest, on Sunday, our \u201cfirst day of the week\u201d. We rest in order to be more effective. We rest in order to be our best. We are therefore always \u201cWorking from Rest\u201d.