GDLC Audio

We have be led to believe that if you’re not working, working, working, you’re somehow falling, falling, falling behind. What used to be a 9-5 day, forty-hour week, has now morphed into a 7-7 day and a 65 hour week! Even retirees will say “I’m working now more than ever!” That kind of non-stop work was never God’s plan for us. Work hard? Yes! Work diligently? Absolutely! But work yourself into the ground? Never. God calls us to Sabbath...God calls us to rest. And for the Christian, we work from our rest, we don’t rest from work. We start our week with rest, on Sunday, our “first day of the week”. We rest in order to be more effective. We rest in order to be our best. We are therefore always “Working from Rest”.

We have be led to believe that if you’re not working, working, working, you’re somehow falling, falling, falling behind. What used to be a 9-5 day, forty-hour week, has now morphed into a 7-7 day and a 65 hour week! Even retirees will say “I’m working now more than ever!” That kind of non-stop work was never God’s plan for us. Work hard? Yes! Work diligently? Absolutely! But work yourself into the ground? Never. God calls us to Sabbath...God calls us to rest. And for the Christian, we work from our rest, we don’t rest from work. We start our week with rest, on Sunday, our “first day of the week”. We rest in order to be more effective. We rest in order to be our best. We are therefore always “Working from Rest”.

The Bible is very clear about the import of the name of God. We are never, ever to take His name lightly but are to call upon His name in prayer and bear His name in this world, in such a way that others will see in us the true reverence we have for our Lord and yes, for His name. Everything we say and everything we do should give evidence that we believe with all of our heart the words of Paul in Philippians chapter two “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.” Philippians 2:9. May our lives prove that indeed, the name of Jesus is in fact, the “The Name Above Every Name”, but that it is so in our lives as well.

The Bible is very clear about the import of the name of God. We are never, ever to take His name lightly but are to call upon His name in prayer and bear His name in this world, in such a way that others will see in us the true reverence we have for our Lord and yes, for His name. Everything we say and everything we do should give evidence that we believe with all of our heart the words of Paul in Philippians chapter two “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.” Philippians 2:9. May our lives prove that indeed, the name of Jesus is in fact, the “The Name Above Every Name”, but that it is so in our lives as well.