I have gotten out of the habit of Sabbath keeping and I have noticed a difference. In choosing to set aside one day of the week where I intentionally worship God through ceasing I am reminded that I am not God--that the world will go on turning if I am not at the helm. This loss of rest all started with Seminary (go figure) and the got worse with bringing the internet into my home. If it is there, I hop on it. Instantly I am bombarded with political news, what's happening in hollywood, the top ten places to live in the US all on Yahoo. The stress rises, the need to do comes back, and my Sabbath rest, the ceasing, stops be ceased.
Then I ask the question Marva Dawn asks in her book Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, "Do I need to reach a certain level of accomplishment in order to feel sure that I am a worthwhile person?" I pause. The answer is yes. I have slipped back into the false mentality that my worth is found in what I do rather than who God says that I am, which is a child of His, called beloved. Work is important and it is holy but it needs to be done as a act of worship and part of that act is ceasing from it 24 hours a week. This Sabbath keeping is what has kept the Jewish people moving for thousands of years...I now must cease.
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