52 Paid Vacation Days!
HT: Ray Ortlund (Tuesday Night Men’s Group @ Immanuel)
Exodus 20:8-11
8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
If someone told you there was a way to glorify and enjoy God, slow down your jam-packed, over-committed pace of life, renew your family and friendships, engage in random acts of kindness, take a deep breath, think about the most worthy and exciting things in the universe, stop and smell the roses, take an afternoon nap – all at absolutely no charge, not counting against the number of annual vacation days at work, you’d want to know more about it. Well, here it is. Not the Sabbath, but The Lord’s Day.
If we remember to make Jesus a priority in our schedules for one whole year, one day per week, then by one year from today we will have enjoyed 52 days, seven and a half weeks, of paid vacation with Jesus and his people! You kiddin’me?!?
You have a wonderful blog Jonathan Frazier. I’ll be returning again in the near future.