Last March, many individuals cleared out their desks and headed home to work from make-shift offices in bedrooms, closets, and basements. This shift blurred the lines between home life and work life. For many, the excellence between the 2 became unrecognizable as business calls were taken during naptime, and peanut butter and jelly was wiped from laptop screens. My husband has worked from home for over ten years, so we aren’t any stranger to what tens of millions experienced this past 12 months. It takes discipline and bounds to maintain work in its proper place.
You can rescue your Sabbath from the demands of your job, even in case you make money working from home and even must work on Sundays. That’s because Sabbath shouldn’t be about a selected day of the week. It’s not about checking a box and moving on together with your day. It’s a few heart attitude of reflection and worship that might be done any day of the week.
In fact, in case your job demands plenty of your time, you would be the form of one that would profit from a every day Sabbath. Set aside time every day to reflect on the character and person of God. Put down the phone, shut off the laptop, and rest and reflect on what God completed in your life that day. Praise Him when your day goes well and even when it doesn’t.
2. Our Stuff Can Steal Our Sabbath
Years ago, when my husband and I moved into our house, there was lots to do. It was a latest construct, and it was quite unfinished—inside and outside. There were no doors (except those required by code), no flooring, no paint, no trim, and never a single blade of grass outside. We even had plywood resting on the dirt leading as much as the back steps as a make-shift sidewalk. It was “rustic.”
But it was also time-consuming. Make that all-consuming. We moved in once I was six months pregnant, so our lives were full from the get-go. Suffice it to say, we spent virtually every waking hour working on or desirous about working on the home. We painted windows during nap time. We raked rocks out of the soil with a baby stroller at our side. The to-do list was countless. We felt lots just like the people the Lord describes in Haggai 1:5-6. We worked so hard, but we never appeared to get out as much as we put in. And it wasn’t just that. Things weren’t going easily. It became a joke that we needed to do every thing twice. Then, independently, my husband and I each got here to the conclusion that something had to alter. Our priorities were all tousled. So, we said, forget the to-do list; we’d like to get things straightened out.
We rescued our Sabbath from our stuff by making some changes. We put aside in the future every week (it was often Sunday). We went to church. We frolicked with clan. We went to parks. We rested, and we reflected. And we didn’t work on the home in any respect. We sacrificed 1 out of seven days–and you realize what happened? It shouldn’t be a surprise since the Bible told us what would occur in Malachi 3:10.
When we gave God what was rightfully His, He blessed us. We found that after we did work on the home, we were more productive. Sure, frustrations still arose, but they didn’t appear to matter as much because our priorities had shifted. But that shift required a alternative. A alternative to choose God’s way over our way. After all, Jesus clearly said that we’re to present to Caesar what’s Caesar’s, but we’re also to present to God what’s God’s (Mark 12:17). The Sabbath is His, not ours. And when it resides with the rightful owner, life is best.
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