Rest

8 Remember the sabbath day, and 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; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. Rest is vital for us all. No matter how much we try to push our bodies, minds, or souls, eventually they wear down and cry out of us to cease, STOP. We pop down in the chair after mowing the lawn or we collapse into bed at night. And after minutes or hours, we will ourselves to get up and start over again. Sabbath is different the rest. Sabbath is a pattern God established. And it is a pattern that was established before the giving of the Commandments on Mount Sinai. It actually began right after the People