Before I start, I need to confess that I'm probably the last one that should be writing about this because, besides one other person I know here (who shall remain nameless), I have probably the heaviest foot in Duncan. It's getting better but it takes time to take Vancouver out of a man.
So now that that's out of the way...
One of the hallmarks of a Christian should be rest. That's what Sabbath, Sabbatical and Jubilee days are about (Lev 25). When we were created on the 6th day, guess what we did first? We rested. God's last day was our first. When Israel went to exile, how long did they go for? The number of years of missed Sabbaths. There are many many more verses and theological ideas to this but it's not by accident that its one of 10 commands that God includes in Ex 20.
Do people know us as a rested person? Or do we fly over the Hat as one of those "40 over" people? Do we know rest as a gift from God and not something we have to earn? Or are our identities tied to what we do?
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