It is easy in the hustle and bustle of life today to complicate and clutter our lives. We easily get busy and pressure ourselves into taking on more than we can handle. Thus we overload the emotional circuits of our life and blow a fuse.
Stress, strain, guilt, and exhaustion take their toll upon our lives. God recognized this danger a long time ago and said, “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all of thy work: But the seventh day ... thou shalt not do any work” (Exodus 20:8-10).
God recognized that there must be a rhythm to life. No person should work all the time. Life goes best even for mules when there is one day of rest out of seven. If we are wise then we will religiously take one day in seven to rest. If we do not take our Sabbaths one in seven, we may wind up taking them back to back in a hospital somewhere.
We need one day in seven not only to rest but also to worship. There needs to be a place in our lives for the highest—a sense of the holy. When we worship God, we are saying by our actions that God is worth knowing, worth praising, worth serving, and worth honoring. And we should never get more than seven days away from worship. The person who does not worship God misses life’s most enriching moments.
It is because God knows your basic need for rest and worship that he set aside a day for those two activities. If you neglect them, you do it to your own detriment. Before you blow an emotional fuse, learn to rest and worship as God intended.