When I don’t take time to rest, I find that I stare a lot.\u00a0 Letting my mind float, I simply stare into space for long minutes.\u00a0 Everyone needs time to rest, no matter how important you are to your family, your ministry or your job.\u00a0 David Brad, a good friend,\u00a0supervises over 100 people with his manufacturing company.\u00a0 He has made an interesting observation.\u00a0 He says that people take “rest time” no matter how many days they may show up\u00a0at the work site.<\/p>\n
Brad says that the more days his men and women work, the more time they waste.\u00a0 “I won’t allow my employees work week after week for seven days.”\u00a0 He forces his work force to take time off, even though there may be scheduling pressures at work.\u00a0 Even though Brad is a Christian, when he first became a supervisor, he allowed the people under him to work months on end every day.\u00a0 Then he began to notice that the employees who took at least one day a week off were far more productive than the people working day after day.<\/p>\n
Brad\u00a0asserts, “I came to believe that God knew what he was talking about when he mandated that we take one day a week for rest.”\u00a0\u00a0 I now tell my employees that they must take at least two days a months off for them to keep their jobs.\u00a0 An interesting thing has happened since making that decision; production in his section of the company has skyrocketed.<\/p>\n
Pressure to perform and to meet the needs of your commitments may seem to mandate that you keep pressing forward until there is nothing left to give.\u00a0 My good friend, Inez Thompson, used to say, “I’d rather wear out than rust out.”\u00a0 She became a pastor of the largest church in our county after she had turned 65.\u00a0 She ran circles around many of the younger pastors on staff.\u00a0 Yet, she took her day off to rest and reflect.\u00a0 During those hours, she ministered to the Lord and she allowed the Lord to minister to her.<\/p>\n
Taking a rest day is a vital choice that we make each week.\u00a0 Too often we slip into the unproductive “stare times” rather than the productive rest days that the Lord commanded that we take. \u00a0How arrogant we are as humankind to think that we can work every day, month after month, when God took a day of rest after the six days of creation?<\/p>\n
The hardest thing I do each week is to take a day off.\u00a0 What about you?\u00a0 Do you try to work every day with little time for rest?\u00a0 How do you find your day off make the working days more productive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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