Today’s devotional is from Max Lucado’s Grace for the Moment:
Sweeter After a Rest
In six days the LORD made everything….
On the seventh day he rested.
Exodus 20:11
Time has skyrocketed in value. The value of any commodity depends on its scarcity. And time that once was abundant now is going to the highest bidder….
When I was ten years old, my mother enrolled me in piano lessons…. Spending thirty minutes every afternoon tethered to a piano bench was a torture….
Some of the music, though, I learned to enjoy. I hammered the staccatos. I belabored the crescendos…. But there was one instruction in the music I could never obey to my teacher’s satisfaction. The rest. The zigzagged command to do nothing. What sense does that make? Why sit at the piano and pause when you can pound?
“Because,” my teach patiently explained, “music is always sweeter after a rest.”
It didn’t make sense to me at age ten. But now, a few decades later, the words ring with wisdom–divine wisdom.
The Applause of Heaven
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Divine wisdom indeed.
We need to remember that whole “on the seventh day God rested” thing. He is a pretty good role model.
If there is one thing we have completely wiped out in America, it is the idea of slowing down and resting.
I vaguely remember when I was a kid, most stores were not open on Sunday. We use to go to Church and then hang out at the house with the family and friends all day, playing board games or in the yard.
No soccer games, or shopping.
No heading into work or checking emails.
Heck, there was no mail delivery and no internet.
We need to find a piece of that again.
We need to slow down and rest, how else will we hear what the Lord is trying to tell us.
How will we hear his whisper….
May God Bless You!
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