This week's challenge: If you're like me you keep wondering how on earth you stay so busy. It's easy to sign up for small jobs and activities, especially if you're active in church or if you have children. The next thing you know almost every day has something going on and the weekends are packed too. Saturday is "fun day" or "go day". Sunday is the clean-up day. Before you know it, you're wiped out, if you ever got to recoup at all.
Originally I wanted to tell you to wipe everything off your calendar this week and stay home. Rest. Put your feet up. (Weekend too) -But I know that's not always realistic. Then I was going to challenge you to pull out your calendar and find one week in July and one in August. (Do more if you like.) And do just that. Mark it off as if you have plans and plan to be still!
But we all know that's still out of balance. I mean you can do that BUT God rested on the Sabbath. That's one day per week, as opposed to out of balance chunks here and there. Take a moment to read our verse below.
--- It's a little convicting, isn't it? This week, think about your schedules, hobbies and family life and examine how you're spending your time. Can you find a way to adjust your schedule so that you can spend one of those coveted weekend days doing nothing at all! Then pull out the calendar and make some intentional adjustments.
It's a challenge for me to so I will be praying with you! May God bless you and your family in this challenge!
Scripture for the week: There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience. -Hebrews 4:9-11
Do you have a testimony about this challenge or a suggestion for another one? I'd love to hear it! Comment here!
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