Purpose: To explore feelings of stress and burnout
Bible cure for burnout
T.G.I.F
R & R - Rest & Refreshment
R - Remembering
eg: Birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Anniversaries, etc.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years."
Seasons - Heb: Moedim
Specifically appointed times, special observances, special celebrations.
This passage in Genesis is referring to the fact that the regular movement of the sun, moon and stars establish a calender that can be observed by people from earth.
Leviticus 23:2
"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are My appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies."
Feast - Heb: Moedim
The Lord is saying essentially, "These are My appointments with you!"
Leviticus 23:3
"There 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."
Genesis 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done.
God deliberately set aside the seventh day of the week - later referred to as Sabbath in Scripture - as sanctified (dedicated to a holy purpose). The English word Sabbath is from the Hebrew word Shabbat, which means "a period of rest."
Exodus 20:8-11 Commandment #4
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
The Sabbath was not intended by God as a ritualistic, religious burden for man to bear, but a blessing for him to enjoy.
Mark 2:27
Jesus said; "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."
The Sabbath as it is defined in the Bible is a whole 24 hour period. In the Bible, one day ends and the next begins at sundown.
By taking the Sabbath command to remember seriously, you will have a whole refreshing day to come out of the rat-race and come to intimacy with the Lord.
T.G.I.S - Thank God It's Sabbath!!
