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\u201c\u2018There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.’\u201d -Leviticus 23:3 Our world is crazy. Literally, crazy. We wake up, get ready, eat breakfast, go to work, go to lunch, go home, workout, watch TV, do homework, feed the kids, and do it all over again the next day. It\u2019s a wonder we haven\u2019t turned into pieces of metal machinery! But even in the midst of work and stress, there is still a way to find a place of meaningful rest in God, devoid of stress.<\/p>\n My dad has said, \u201cA dead man can\u2019t have stress.\u201d That\u2019s an interesting concept. If you\u2019re dead to something, you certainly can\u2019t have any stress. And you\u2019re most likely very at peace. When we get to this place of complete trust and dependence upon God for our outcomes, that\u2019s when we know we have died to ourselves. We don\u2019t worry. We don\u2019t fret. We do things with integrity. We do them with excellence. We do them within the boundaries God has set for our lives. But, there is no need to \u201cworry ourselves to death.\u201d Why? We have already \u201cdied\u201d with Christ, and have been resurrected with Him.<\/p>\n After the Israelites left Egypt, they had to depend on God completely. They were no longer slaves to Egypt, or to the world\u2019s way of thinking. They had to learn how to depend on God for everything. They had to learn how to be sons and daughters, and have peace in God\u2019s provision for their lives. This is a paradigm shift. This is called receiving grace. There is nothing we can do apart from God. Why do we think that we can? We only stress ourselves out further by thinking that we alone are the solutions to our problems, and we can make everything happen on our own.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a great book called Margin, which highlights the state we\u2019re in, and how we\u2019ve lost the \u201cMargin\u201d in our lives. I encourage you to read it. It cites very specific reasons why we\u2019ve lost the \u201cMargin\u201d or extra buffer of time and resource in our lives, and how we can get it back, without losing our life\u2019s efficacy.<\/p>\n Are you able to work in rest? If not, ask God to help you. He desires for all His kids to have peace in the midst of everything. This is how He can tell us apart, as true sons and daughters of His.<\/p>\n Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Working in Rest \u201c\u2018There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.’\u201d -Leviticus 23:3 Our world is crazy. Literally, crazy. We wake up, get ready,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[182,871,181,2584],"class_list":{"0":"post-26435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-god","9":"tag-rest","10":"tag-today","11":"tag-working"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}